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On my last day
in Ketchikan, I went on a 'bush pilot' tour. Basically, a mail plane is going out to
make deliveries and you pay to fly along and see the sights. I took this picture
while we waited for the parcels and mail bags to be loaded. |
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First stop was a
logging camp on Prince of Wales Island. I included this picture because, for once, I
got to sit in the front seat! Notice the low clouds. It was good visit these
little working towns. So much of my time has been in the parks and monuments that I
forgot that I wasn't in 'AlaskaLand'. If you look close you can see that portions of
this island have been clear cut. |
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There is a pulp
mill in Ketchikan and many of the islands around it have been logged. It seems all
of the beaches are littered with trees. That is what the red is in this picture.
A logger at the camp told me they don't out and pick these up because they are no
good. |
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| After a stop at Hollis and Kassan,
we landed at a sport fishing camp called Sportsman's Cove. And, finally, I spotted a
Sitka Black Tailed Deer. The red on his shoulders is his summer coat, the rest is
the shaggy winter coat he will shed over the summer. There was also a doe near by.
All of the boats were out of the cove because there are no salmon or halibut left
on this side of the island. The boats travel down the channel and around to the
other side to find fish. |
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When we landed
in Sportsman's Cove, we heard over the radio that the other pilots returning to Ketchikan
were turning back because the weather had gotten so bad over the channel. Dave, the
pilot, said 'there are worse places to get stuck' and we headed up the steps to the lodge
dining room. They brought us coffee and cookies and we sat down to wait for the
weather to clear. |
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| This is what it looked like after
the weather 'got better'. I got back about 90 minutes late from a three hour trip.
Dave got us back safely and it we got to take an extra hop in the harbor because we
brought back a passenger from Sportsman's Cove who was scheduled on a later flight no body
expected to actually make it out to the cove. |
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