Saturday, June 26, 2010

An Alaska Commercial Fishing town, Petersburg!





Hey, hey,
We are now in Petersburg, Ak. We are still slogging along. When we arrived here we took on fuel and water, then went downtown to look around and eat dinner at a restaurant. We also took a little time to go to a local bar with a live band. The boys learned that in Peterburg "Xtra Tuff" boots also double as dance hall shoes, as the girls were all wearing them! This little town is all about the commercial fishing industry. Most of the boats here are salmon trawlers with a few herring gillnetters. We spent the last night in a little bay on Prince of Wales island. That island seems to have seen a lot of logging activity over the years. The little bay we were in looked like we might be able to catch some crab or halibut, but no luck. When we pulled up the crab pot we found spruce bark in it! The whole bay might have been full of rafted logs during the peak of the logging industry thus maybe spoiling the crab habitat there. Welp, heres some more pictures for viewing and we are now bound for Juneau and Elfin cove. Later, Stan

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