Our final port of call was Ketchikan. We only had about 5 hours in port, and we chose to go on a Bering Sea Crab Fisherman's boat excursion to learn about fishing in the Bering Sea.
Some views as we left Ketchikan:
Crabs
Fishing
We all had bites of king crab -- so good!
We saw so many eagles on this trip, especially on this excursion. There are lots of eagle pics -- scroll on through if you don't love birds as much as I do!
Juvenile -- you can tell by the mottled feathers on the underside.
I've only seen eagles in the wild a couple of times before this trip, so visiting Alaska (where they are everywhere) was amazing. Seeing so many on this excursion was definitely a highlight for me.
It was salmon season, and this boat was pulling in a net full of salmon.
Crab cage
And shrimp
The king crab is enormous!
Octopus
We saw so many salmon swimming -- they pop up with a splash.
After our excursion, we had about an hour to explore Ketchikan before we needed to be back on board the Legend. We found a totem pole
and our seventh bookstore of the trip!
Ketchikan
Will was pooped, so he and I went back on board while Gene and Henry explored a little further. They found chowder in bread bowl, which may have been one of Henry's favorite foods of the trip.
As we were leaving Ketchikan, we saw this lion's mane jellyfish.
Final views
The pilot boat
We had one more sea day before arriving back in Seattle. We read, relaxed, went swimming, played shuffleboard and enjoyed delicious meals on the ship.
Our Alaska cruise was a wonderful experience and we are so glad we were able to celebrate Gramma and Grampa's 50th wedding anniversary with them. Thank you for the trip, G&G!
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