It's raining, although nothing like the SW monsoon we'd be experiencing if we were still in HK or PI this time of year. I spoke about the rain with a local fellow at the totem park here in Ketchikan this morning; he explained that it rains so much in Ketchikan that they measure it in feet rather than inches, and that they don't bother to count the days of rain per year, but rather the days without rain per year (40 last year). I don't know if all this was accurate, but it made for a good conversation.

We got into Ketchikan last evening; the harbor crew were very helpful, and put us into a slip strait in off the narrows, easy-peasy; even caught our lines for us. An entirely different situation to coming to the slip in Petersburg... but that's Craig Campbell's story to tell (or not) and I'm not going to steal his thunder... err maybe that should be splash! rather than thunder. We accidently timed our entry to the Tongass Narrows (the body of water where Ketchikan is located) well, in that 3 gigantic cruise ships came out of the Narrows just ahead of our entry. It would have been a bit tense meeting one of them in the tightest portions.

We may stay a couple of days, depends on the weather and what there is to see, then down to British Columbia, and continuing south towards Seattle.

Photo is from the boat harbor at Wrangell...