Thursday we enjoyed our breakfast in our room as we sailed through the heavy wooded shores of southern Alaska toward Ketchikan. We walked down the gangplank a little after ten to look around the little frontier town which was populated heavily by the passengers from four crews ships which were carrying a total of 8,364.We picked up a little candy, some postcards, and a pair of copper ear rings which had the raven totem on them standing for knowledge and creativity. I then walked Klep to the pickup point for his aerial tour of the fjords on a float plane.
They took off from the float plane dock which is four blocks up from the cruise ship.
By noon the pilot had already taken four groups out taking off on the inlet and flying south over the numerous fjords created by glaciers in ages past. They saw spruce covered mountains except for the very tops where the mountain goats lived. Since the mountain tops were covered with clouds, they did not see the goats today.
They touched down on a remote lake that was 
twenty seven hundred up in the mountains from which an 1800 foot waterfall fell. Then the pilot took off again, winging his way between the clouds and the mountains to bring the passengers back to the waterway in front of Ketchikan. It was an exhilarating ride in a six place small airplane. We watched more of the planes take off from our window on board.
The salmon were definitely running here today.
At tea today we shared a table with a couple from Arkansas and two couples from Kent in England.
Tonight we continued our international experience by sharing a table with a couple from Australia.
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