Quite the catch in Ketchikan!
10 July 2014 | Ketchikan, AK
Maggie
We spent the night in Shrimp Bay en route back to Ketchikan and left in the morning with lots of big shrimp from this gorgeous bay with two waterfalls and lots of eagles.
We have become very familiar with Ketchikan's layout and have taken advantage of the bus service that is efficient and cheap...
and always interesting!
We enjoyed chatting to this gentleman thrilled with his catch for dinner...
He gave me a couple of suggestions for cooking salmon, like olive oil, salt and pepper, topped with crushed graham crackers and baked. He was cute!
It was a mad 24 hours of laundry, cleaning and my honey still desperately trying to figure out our generator, anchor and autopilot problems.
As we came into Ketchikan the winds were blowing hard and we had a rough time getting into our slip, actually touching (gently) the boat sharing the slip with us. Thankfully some young guys from the fishing boat next door, Sydney Ann, came to our rescue, catching our lines and pulling us safely back to the dock.
Nev fixed our anchor that evening.
I finished my chores.
Nev suggested we start the next job and I called "time out" - we were both exhausted!!
The fishermen brought us some freshly smoked salmon, so we gave them some dried sausage.
They told us stories and we happily traded drinks and cigars to hear more...
We figured we'd made a pretty fine catch in Ketchikan with these new friends who wiped away our tiredness with their energy and kindness!