Rainy and cool day, natives are happy as it has been unusually hot & dry for them.
Never know what you might see walking around.
Around seventeen million acres, thinking we’ll be seeing more Tongass signs.
The Alaskan Marine Highway ferry transports many different types of vehicles. You can feel a little sway when they load these big guys.
They really know how to pack the vehicles close.
Docked in Juneau for a couple of hours, hanging out on board. The Alaskan Marine Highway dock is quite a few miles from town, 2 hours isn’t enough time.
Backing down to load at Juneau.
The crew had to do a couple different safety exercises. One was to fight a fire, they had to take turns spraying the fire hoses over the sides of the ship. For the other exercise they had to lower one of the boats and go back to locate a life ring that had been dropped overboard.
Even without the sun shining there were some great views.
Counting sockeye salmon, bears are known to hang out in this area when the pinks are running. Total sockeye for the day was 2859, 27,899 cumulative. A guy is sitting there counting, said it was slow right now, last year when they were running pinks (later in July) were 5,000 and sockeye were 10,000 per day.
Cloudy day, view along Lutak road.
It is hard to miss where the Hammer Museum is located.
They have over 2,000 hammers on display. This is only one of the rooms. They have them grouped by their various uses.
Out and about trying to track bears on the Battery Point Trail.
We drove to Chilkat State Park and saw a moose and 2 calves cross the road.
Stopped by the Haines Cannery to see what they might have for our dinner. Ended up with a crab and salmon combo.
They use a large vacuum to suck the fish out of the ship’s hold up to the canning building .
It is pumped up and into containers for moving around. They had windows along the processing shed so you could watch them working.
The Palmer Express 
Wow! Spectacular!!!
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