Ketchikan is also the well-known gateway to visit the glorious Misty Fjords where visitors can see icy blue lakes, waterfalls, and glacial valleys. Kodiak Located in Southwest Alaska, the principal town on Kodiak Island is the home of Alaska’s largest fishing fleet. The Kodiak National ...
when one of our breakfast neighbors suggested an article about how Key West culture has gone so far afield there is no sense of “normal” anymore. Then he went on to list a series of anecdotes that he found upsetting primarily because they were dismissed by people as, “that’s just Ke...
Take a 30 second ‘aerial chopper ride’ through Ward Cove, Alaska on Youtube May, 2022! Ward Cove With Street View!
Heavy metals in seaducks and mussels from misty fjords national monument in Southeast Alaska Quartz Hill, in Misty Fjords National Monument near Ketchikan, Alaska, is the site of a proposed molybdenum-producing mine. To provide baseline data for us... JC Franson,PS Koehl,DV Derksen,... - 《...
Inside Passage: Prince Rupert to Ketchikan June 15, 2012 If you’ve followed along at home, you know Alaska (the 49th state in the Union) is my 49th state in the Airstream. I think it technically counted when I passed through U.S. Customs and boarded the M/V Matanuska (a ferry ow...
On any day that we are docked at a Port (Juneau, Sitka, Ketchikan) I work three hours in the morning then have the rest of the day (until departure) to explore the port as well. In Alaska, only American crew members are able to work on land. ...
There arenearly 42,000 zip codesspread across in America, each of which routes mail to its appropriate destination. The numbers range from 00501 (the lowest one for the Internal Revenue Service in Holtsville, New York) to 99950 (the highest one in Ketchikan, Alaska). Perhaps the easiest zip...
Alaska: Inn at Creek Street - Location: Ketchikan - Year built: 1924 The Creek Street Inn is a collection of early 20th-century wood-frame structures painted in an array of vibrant colors. While the buildings are charming enough, the main attraction is the stunning view of Thomas Basin Harbo...
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The "Bridge to Nowhere" The most famous recent example of an earmark is the "Bridge to Nowhere," a $398 million bridge that would have connected an island housing an airport and 50 permanent residents to a larger island containing the city of Ketchikan, Alaska. In 2005, members of Congress...