These photos are from June 11th. That was my second full day on the Matanuska. I didn’t do a blog entry on June 11th due to lack of cell phone coverage.
The kids were my “Boat Buddies”. They are having the adventure of their young lives. But, like all of us old people after more than 24 hours on the ferry they are on deck and ready to spend a couple of hours onshore. They spent most of yesterday looking for a spirit bear. But, we didn’t see one. And by this morning we are out of their range.
The first full day on the ferry is spent on board with no stops. The second day features three stops. And you can get off the boat for a nice walk around town at two locations.
After another couple of hours on the ferry, we come to Wrangell.
The “thing” in Wrangell is garnets. The town is filthy with garnets. They even mixed garnets (or maybe red glass chips) into the sidewalk concrete aggregate. The boy scouts used to own the garnet mine and small kids would sell stones to people off the cruise ships. But there are no cruise ships so I don’t know if the kids still sell garnets.
Not long after Wrangell is Petersburg.
And another fine day on the Matanuska came to an end. But the sun was still shining. When the sun is shining there is no better place to be in the summer than southeastern Alaska.
