The alarm went off at 5am this morning and we left the campground by 5:30am headed for the Ferry Terminal. Got there about 5:50am and sat for at least an hour and a half waiting to get loaded. Today was a much smaller ferry than the first one but it was much faster. It was a twin hull catamaran and they said it cruised at about 32 knots per hour. I don’t exactly how many mph that would be but I think it would be 25 to 27 mph. We got into Sitka about 1:30pm and were sitting in the RV park before 2pm. The RV Park is call the Sitka Sportsman’s Association RV Park. They have water and 30 amp electricity with a dump station available when we leave. We paid for 4 nights at $22 plus tax per night for a total of $93.28. The parking spaces are pretty tight for rigs the size of Gary’s and ours but will do what we need them to do.
Thought you might need a little perspective on where we are now. The top map shows Sitka as the bottom pin cushion and Juneau as the top pin cushion and then Anchorage is shown on the map. The bottom map just shows more details of the numerous islands that are along the southeastern coast of Alaska.
We went into the town of Sitka which is about 6 miles from our campground around 5:30pm and looked things over as a preliminary plan as to what we want to see. We were surprised at how modern Sitka really is. Sitka and the surrounding area have a population of about 8000. There were 2 cruise ships in the harbor when we got there and the downtown area was fairly busy. I will post some pictures of the downtown area over the next few days.
We did take a road southeast of town to the Saw Mill Creek Campground and then up the mountain to Blue Lake. The campground is nowhere you would want to take an RV. It is pretty much a tent campground but the lake was pretty. The lake has a hydroelectric plant that supplies the electric for the city.
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