About halfway up the street, there was a funicular up to the Cape Fox Lodge at the top of the hill. I paid my $2 (good for all day) and headed up the hill/mountain. (This picture is looking down on the funicular towards Creek Street)
The totems of Cape Fox Lodge:
I rode up, then followed Married Mans path back down to Creek Street. It was a beautiful wooded bath a very easy walk with lots of well-built stairs and some spectacular views!
Isnt it pretty?
This is a very easy walk down even for us Pooh-sized people! The path is clean, clear and well-kept all the stairs had handrails. A very lovely 15-20 minute walk back down to Creek Street
Heading back towards the ship, I walked past Whale Park a little pocket park, with the coolest benches!
The main feature of the park is Chief Kyans Totem Pole. From Experienceketchikan.com: The Chief Kyan Totem pole is a lineage pole and has three figures. The Crane, at the top, represents Chief Kyan's wife, the next figure is a Thunderbird, Chief Kyan's wife's clan, and the Bear at the bottom is Chief Kyan's family crest.
On the pier, I stopped to admire the bronze sculpture: The Rock. From the plaque: A Tlingit woman sits with her drum singing her song of Ketchikan. She tells the story you see before you on The Rock. She sings of how the loggers came and harvested the trees, the miners mined the gold, the fishermen dared the sea for the salmon and the halibut, and the pilots braved the sky, carrying people out beyond the reach of any ship or road. The pioneer woman arrives on her own, looking over the horizon of opportunity that awaits her here in this new land.
I wandered my way back to the shop, picking up some souvenirs along the way.
Hi Mom!!
No, really shes in that picture. Here, look, Ill show you:
Just as I finished my shopping, the rain started back up, which I took as a sign to finish up! I met Mom at our room, then we ordered room service for lunch. We sat at the window and visited, sorted our souvenirs from the whole trip to see what we still needed to pick up and had a lovely afternoon.
At 4:30 we went down to play bingo Mom won a door prize, a
DCL key chain and a small stuffed Minnie Mouse. And then on the last game, I won! WooHoo!! After bingo, we settled in Diversions to watch the world sail by while checking the Texas Rangers score (and yes, the Rangers had beaten the Blue Jays).
The evening show was Disney Dreams my all-time favorite DCL show. The young lady who sang Annemarie was fantastic! I still cry
After the show, we decided to go up to the room for a while to play games, then go back down during the second show and try to finish our shopping for the cruise. The plan worked really well we had the shops almost completely to ourselves for 30 minutes.
We went back to the room for cheeseburgers (we had missed our dinner because we went to the show) and some more Skip Bo and bed.