Ketchikan

I woke up in the morning with a view on a shoreside town out my window.

I closed the curtain and eventually ended up above decks where I could look out over it.

There were interesting views from the ferry dock, but it wasn't clear where to go in this town.

I had been told before that the dock had been built on a derelict pulp mill. I haven't totally put all the pieces together, because meh, but I was able to notice it sat atop these massive drums.

I think these ones are taken with my DSLR rather than the phone.

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As I arrived, people crowded this street waiting for a 7.4 parade. It didn't involve tanks though.

A mildly brutalist building to match the library in Juneau.

I learned about this organisation for the first time. Imagine if the Royal Asiatic Society visited the Star Trek mirror universe; this is what they'd find.

I was very interested in this bar which was running a Filipino barbecue, but the line seemed a bit long, so I just stopped by long enough to get on Wi-Fi and track down my cousins.

They had bought this little kids' toy camera, which worked pretty much as well as any digital camera.

We walked over to see a salmon ladder.

Which ws the thing on the left. It was neat, but not tourist-neat.

There was a public path around it though, and I decided to see if that would be worthwhile.

That's the stream with the salmon ladder.

Kind of fun architecture that reminds me of home.

Then I passed by this building.

Clearly abandoned.

Normally I might have been more curious, if it weren't in a dangerous foreign country, and also along a well-travelled path.

You can see stuff through the window, including an elephant.

Would have liked to see more.

Downstream there were all these buildings, which reminded me of old Cheonggyecheon or Taebaek.

I hastily photographed this sushi restaurant menu for later analysis.

We passed by a relic of the past, a newspaper office.

I made a remark asking what this was, and other tourists passing by laughed, at which point I retorted "I still work for a newspaper so I get to make these remarks."

We stopped by a yard with a beer garden, and I noticed the somewhat unique name Arlo.

And this Americaball, manufactured in, yep, China.

On a few occasions, I noticed men wearing skirts like this. Not quite tartan kilts, not quite drag, and I couldn't quite figure it out, though not that I would disapprove.

I looked down and noticed that all those yellow dots were Goldfish crackers.

Heading back to the ship.

Not this ship.

Had to go through a tunnel.

Apparently during the parade they were handing out American flag-themed inflatable rifles, but this was the only one I ever saw.

That's our ship.

This seemed like a good spot for a group photo.

But good luck gathering everyone.

Seeing a few sights from earlier.