Alaska Part VI: Icy Strait Point

Icy Strait Point was a small area that used to be a fish processing plant. A mile off of the point is a town called Hoonah, which is a small fishing village. The ship set anchor off shore and they sent the ships tender, or smaller service ships to relay people on to shore. People ride a zip line from the top of the hill beyond, down to the point. We walked around and watched people as they came down the zip line. The whole day the weather was at the verge of rain, but it held off until we returned to the ship.

We went hunting for rocks on the beach. We saw the steam from Whales from shore.



They had a path that worked its way around the coast, then through the rain forest. They had a campfire lit with picnic tables around it, and two totem poles. I could tell by the names in the small cemetery there, that there were many native Alaskans who lived in the area.

We enjoyed the walk through the rain forest. We found cool mushrooms, a squirrel and trees with weird scales for bark. We met up with our waiter from Turkey, Ozgur Isik. He was sweat on Diane. We did the rain forest walk with him, then walked the mile into the town of Hoonah.

We walked through another cemetery. It was a cute little fishing town. Ozgur bought us icecream at one of the stores. He is from Istanbul and has a degree in travel and tourism. One of his dissertation papers was on Hagia Soffia, the large church there, that I studied in school.

Hagia Sofia, Instanbul, Turkey.

Thimble berries in the foreground (like rasberries). I ate a few.

We walked back to the dock, and got Ozgur back a little late. We hope he didn't get in too much trouble.

The evening show was the comedy and music of John Joseph and Johnny B--a little border line but pretty funny.