Petersburg to Sitka

I will try to bring you up to date on our travels. On our last day  in Petersburg we stopped at the Eagles Roost Park. This was a pretty little city park right on the water.

   

Next was a trip to the Man made hole. This was a stone pit that they used to build the road. When they were finished with the road they decided to redirect a nearby stream to the pit to create a small lake. The water on the lake was so still and the light was flat since it was misting. The combination of the two resulted in  great reflections in the water. Please note the large Skunk Cabbage plant along the trail.

  

Next up was a potluck lunch with Susi’s painting Partners from Petersburg. See Susi’s blog entry about that.

The ferry from Petersburg was supposed to leave at 1:45 am but was late and did not leave until around 2:45 am. It is a  12 hour ride to make the trip to Sitka.  Needless to say, we took our sleeping bags and pillows and slept for part of the trip.  The ferry’s first stop was Kate which is largely a first nations village. As you can see, the ferry terminal was little more than a roof. After breakfast we enjoyed watching the boat navigate through some narrow passages and had fun spotting bears on the shore.  Getting off the ferry was a little bit of a challenge as Terry had to back the truck and trailer the length of the boat, make a 90 degree turn and then back up the ramp to get off.  Once again the ferry staff was extremely helpful and Terry managed to get off without any problems.

  

For all my Airstream Friends you must check out the Alaskan Flamingo Tree (definitely one of a kind).

 

It was less than 10 miles from the ferry dock to the campground where we would be staying for the next week.  Seal Cove RV park is basically a parking lot right on the harbor.  The view out our trailer window is beautiful and we have water and electric.  There are no showers available and no sewer hook up so we will be conserving our water all week.  The location is great as we are within walking distance of downtown Sitka.  We spent the rest of the day setting up camp and going to bed early as we were tired from the ferry ride.

 

There is a dormant volcano – Mt Edgecumbe just beyond our site.

There was one wee problem on our arrival.  We did not dump our tanks in Petersburg and with no sewer hookup here in Sitka we had to find the city dump station. Not really a problem since it was right down the road from our campground. The problem was they had these giant guard rocks at the entrance. Well I was trying to make sure the trailer did not hit one of them. Don’t you know the largest guard rock jumped in front of the truck and plucked my tire monitor off the valve stem to disappear forever. You guessed-- it a flat tire had to be changed right there in the entrance. Luckily after a having the stem replaced we were back in business. Just does not pay when you are tired.

After a good night's rest we were off to explore Sitka.

All of the pictures are here.

All of the albums for the trip can be found here.