Made it all the way to Ketchikan, Alaska. Little shipping town of 12 to15 thousand souls carved into the mountains which come right down to the shore almost vertically.  

Ketchikan gets 12 feet of rain per year. By my math, that's a foot a month, or 3 inches every week, week after week. No wonder the slopes of the mountains are lush with evergreen forest.

Cruise ships stop here too, so you can buy all kinds of items you don't need. ("Kids' alaska socks!")

They let us off  our boat, the Kennicott, for several hours, so we walked the couple of miles into the little downtown area. (It wasn't raining, only overcast.)

One whale spotted yesterday but pretty far from our boat.

Boat was a little rocky yesterday for a few hours when we were exposed to open ocean. We made one friend by supplying a nauseated woman with Dramamine.