Ketchikan has an average yearly rainfall of 162 inches. It rains almost 240 days a year. The day we were here it was cloudy, the first we've seen in 2 weeks, but it never rained. We were blessed!
Because of so much rain, their baseball fields look like this. Notice what's missing? (answer is the grass!)
Ketchikan is about a half mile wide and seven miles long. There is 16 to 18 hours of daylight during the summer months. We saw many bald eagles here with their nest high in the air, but no pictures of them flying high from their nest.
Totem Poles are not of interest to either of us. Ketchikan if full of them. Along with master carver Nathan Jackson
Thought it interesting that totem poles were never worshiped as religious objects as the early missionaries believed. They were carved to honor the dead, proclaim wealth and status and support the oral traditions.
We visited The Discovery Center and found these 'babies' ~ in order, a horned owl, falcon and of course our national bird, the eagle!
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