We drove south on the Island today. You can only drive about 9 or 10 miles south from Ketchikan’s downtown area but we had met a lady on the ferry coming into Ketchikan that lived in the area and she told us about some things in the area. First there is a Hatchery, there were a lot of fish trying to get “upstream” to spawn. I don’t know for sure what kinds there were but some were red on the side and some were black. They were big fish by our standards. In the neighborhood of 30”. There was a pipe at the end of a holding tank that had water running out the end of the pipe and the fish were trying to jump into it. Of course they couldn’t but they kept trying. It was kind of sad since they were all at the end of their life cycle.
We then drove to the end of the road which followed the ocean. It normally would have been really pretty to us but by now it has to be spectacular or it doesn’t impress us. Kinda like eating too much ice cream. You get where you don’t want anymore ice cream, at least not right then. As we drove back we had been looking for a place called “The Hole in the Wall” which the lady said was a local hangout for people in the area. She had marked it on a map for us but it wasn’t where she had marked it so we had about given up when we saw a sign.
We had to walk down a trail to the edge of the ocean to get to it.
We decided to pass it up this trip but it was in a pretty setting right next to a dock.
She had also told us about an eagle’s nest on the road. We missed it going out but saw it coming back. It still had a young Bald Eagle in it. As I’ve mentioned before, the young eagles don’t get the bald headed look until they reach maturity at about 3 years old.
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