It doesn’t take long to see the city of Haines AK. An eclectic selection of homes ranging from mini mansions to run down shacks, a handful of businesses with more than a few sporting “For Sale” signs, the ferry dock, the small boat harbor, and best of all The Bamboo Curtain which I discussed yesterday.
The main attraction is the scenery and when the mountains are completely shrouded in thick gray clouds it doesn’t take long to see that either.
In an effort to extend the viewing possibilities, we drove out the ferry road to the very end, passing two large gravel borrow pits, nearly vertical streams of melted snow water, huge clumps of Devil’s Club, a mystery red berry bush, a couple of fishermen, preserved buildings of Fort William H. Seward, the original bridge to nowhere, and some gigantic spruce trees.
And clouds. Lots of clouds!
Yesterday’s halibut was so good, we had to go back for seconds. We met one of the owners and visited with her about the trials of operating a business with insufficient staff. The business is for sale and we teased her a bit by telling her that we couldn’t make an offer unless we were sure the halibut cook came with the building. She seemed tickled to know we had liked the fish so much.
We did some shopping for our ocean voyage supplies, repacked some stuff to make establishing our ship board camping a little easier, retrieved some cash from the local ATM, and did a bit of planning for the last few days of our trip. Since I have very limited access to the internet on the ferry, I wanted to take care of everything that was internet dependent before we leave.
The alarm is set for 5:30AM.
¡Buenas noches!
