COOL town!
Someone recently ordered socks from a town I had never heard of, Ketchikan, so I looked it up on Google. If you've ever been there, I'd like to see some more pics. Just so I don't get into trouble this picture is from alaska port reviews. Maybe it's a famous place. The Alaskan site said "many of the caribbean stores are found in the downtown area" with no further explanation. Hmmm....?
Have you ever gone on holiday thinking you've found a secret exotic hideaway only to find the hotel guest book full of people you know?
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Ketchikan IS beautiful. I have lived in southeast Alaska since 1978 and I love the diversity of terrain and all the animals and GREEN...The photo is of Creek Street, a former "red light" district from the 1900's until the 50's. It's built on pilings and goes up Ketchikan Creek, hence the name. My husband's father had a grocery store there in the 1960's which slid off its pilings during a storm surge. Apparently, a local bar (pub) also went down. The storm wasn't bad enough to keep looters away who got into their skiffs and took nets to scoop up floating bottles of liquor.
The reference to Caribbean stores or something comes from the fact that during the summer months we have up to five cruise ship per day docking in our harbors. The owners of the jewelry stores in the Carribbean have infested our town with GEMS. Many times I have heard cruise passengers ask why we have so many jewelry stores. Good question. We also have other things to offer here!
Southeast Alaska, which includes Ketchikan, is part of the Tongass National Forest and is a temperate rain forest. We enjoy a lot of rain similar to England!
Ketchikan is on Revillagigedo Island so is only accesible by boat or floatplane. Our airport is on an adjacent island; 747's land there and then passengers take a city ferry to Ketchikan. Here are some links of sites that might be interesting to you: akrain.org, ketchikan.com, ketchikanalaska.com, rainforests.pwnet are a few. If you enter anything with Tongass in it there should be info about our area!
Some of our heritage consists of Alaska Natives (three clans in southeast Alaska), along with many Norwegian descendants and other European cultures. In the not so distant past our towns main income came from logging and fishing.
Now our main industry is tourism...come on over!
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