Aug. 9-10. We left Juneau at Noon on August 9 and with the clouds and mist having lifted a bit, were treated with nice views of the islands. We went through some narrow passages and even did some of them twice, as this is a training program for the ferry helmsman/captains to improve their experience ratings.
By the morning we arrived at Yakutat, a small fishing village. They don’t have an adjustable ramp at the dock to allow cars to get on and off the ferry, but this boat has a clever elevator on board. Lowered to the car deck, it can be rotated to allow cars and trucks to drive on (maybe 2-3 depending on the size), then it is rotated and lifted to the height of the dock to allow them to roll off.
Cynthia and I took a stroll to visit a newly installed totem pole and the an old narrow guage railway that was used to move salmon from a river port to the ocean for shipment to the lower 48.
In my last post, I said that the next part of our voyage would not have any scenery, but as it turned out, the day turned sunny and our journey out of Yakutat into the Gulf of Alaska allowed us to view the spectacular coastal Wrangell Mountain range. The photo shows Mt. Logan, at 19,559 feet, the highest mountain in Canada and second (by 800 feet) only to Mt. Denali.
With only 182 passengers aboard, we have enjoyed watching and talking to the other passengers aboard. That includes tourists from Germany, Australia, Canada and Norway, military families being transferred to Alaska, backpackers and other with RVs aboard intending to follow a tourist route similar to ours.
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