The Oceania Riviera arrived in Ketchikan to brilliant sunlight.  Next to our ship is the Regen Seven Seas Explorer again. Snow still on mountains. Simple lunch in the Terrace Cafe. At 12:30, this restaurant is usually so crowded that it is difficult to find a table. Why?  This is our last stop until we arrive in Vancouver in two days.  There are also 34 different tours.  Some years ago I might have gone halibut fishing.  On the other hand, pay them $600 to freeze?  Maybe not.   Then again, this red rockfish is the type caught in Ketchikan.  Today, I did nothing much except for the above and following. While my filming technique is a work in progress, here is perhaps my most boring:  departing Ketchikan. Ketchikan. Sunny the whole day, which, they say, is unusual.  Annual rainfall is 150 inches, and Ketchikan is nicknamed the  Rain Capital of Alaska .  Hawaii is annually 72 inches, although Mount Waialeale on Kauai re...

  I've previously been to Anchorage twice in my life, both during the period of the longest day, when the sun never did set.  The first time was around 40 years ago.  To quote from my   24June2018 blog . I remember the previous and only other time I was here in Anchorage, maybe a third of a century ago, also around the longest day.  I participated in a hydrogen conference at the University of Alaska, and after that was over, joined a salmon fishing expedition.  Paid a fortune to be taken by van with eight others a two-hour ride away to be dropped off at a river.  It was a total disaster  There was only about a 50-yard portion of a river, where there were a hundred or more fishermen.  Only native Americans can fish wherever they want.   We were provided a long pole, line and a hook with some cloth material attached to it.   At this time of year the salmon returning upstream do not eat.  You need to irritate them so tha...