POSTCARDS
As you can see eagles are not extinct in Alaska. We have so many that they sit in groups of seventy or eighty in the trees above the fish cold storage waiting for tidbits and on the rocks of the breakwater at the harbor like a bunch of grumpy old men contemplating their world.
This postcard shows the entire Ketchikan area including Ketchikan International Airport on Gravina Island. There are two car ferries to take passengers to the airport. Ketchikan sits on an island called Revillagegedo or Revilla as we call it.
We live in the area across the channel from the south end of the airport. We moved to Ketchikan in 1970 from Prince of Wales Island where we had lived for three years while my now deceased husband Bob's company built logging roads for Ketchikan Pulp Company. Before moving to Tuxekan and Prince of Wales Islands we lived and were born in Juneau.
We loved the time we spent living on the islands. The children were free to trap martin, fish, dig clams and pull the dungeness crab traps. We loved broiling clams on the half shell with just a tiny teaspoon of cocktail sauce on each of them which made them sooooo tasty. Eating dungeness crab in salads and on English muffins and other receipes was such fun. Enjoying it with good friends and family was even bette.r
Lots of really big whales swam into the coves where we were located and once a gigantic school (pod?) of killer whales passed by making real loud noises and rolling and jumping. I remember the children became scared of the extremely loud sound they made. There were many babies whales as their dorsal fins where much smaller than their mothers and fathers.
Several times when the kids and I or my other friends were out salmon and halibut fishing, large whales surfaced in front of us just sliding through the water and never bothering us at all. What a wonderful life it was! We will always remember our years out there. Elzie and I went back out a few years ago and looked at the area where Bob and I and the kids had lived and we could still see where our mobile homes sat. It brought back so many memories. So sorry to see this way of life end.
Ketchikan is the first stop on the Inside Passage in Alaska for all of the cruise ships. We have as many as five or six ships a day with an average of 25,000 tourist coming in here daily either on cruise ships or flying in to charter fish. Many come in on the car ferries of the Alaska Marine Highway System.
Ketchikan sits on an island called Revillagegedo or Revilla as we call it. We live in the area across the channel from the south end of the airport. We moved to Ketchikan in 1970 from Prince of Wales Island where we had lived for three years while my now deceased husband Bob's company built logging roads for Ketchikan Pulp Company. Before moving to Tuxekan and Prince of Wales Islands we lived and were born in Juneau.
We loved the time we spent living on the islands. The children were free to trap martin, fish, dig clams and pull the dungeness crab traps. We loved broiling clams on the half shell with just a tiny teaspoon of cocktail sauce on each of them which made them sooooo tasty. Eating dungeness crab in salads and on English muffins and other receipes was such fun. Enjoying it with good friends and family was even bette.r
Lots of really big whales swam into the coves where we were located and once a gigantic school (pod?) of killer whales passed by making real loud noises and rolling and jumping. I remember the children became scared of the extremely loud sound they made. There were many babies whales as their dorsal fins where much smaller than their mothers and fathers. Several times when the kids and I or my other friends were out salmon and halibut fishing, large whales surfaced in front of us just sliding through the water and never bothering us at all. What a wonderful life it was! We will always remember our years out there. Elzie and I went back out a few years ago and looked at the area where Bob and I and the kids had lived and we could still see where our mobile homes sat. It brought back so many memories. So sorry to see this way of life end.