8th May 2025
The overnight ship trip to Ketchikan has us arriving at 11.00am. Today’s activity was a photo safari, which R and I were booked on. R still under the weather, so did not attend. I misread safari and took my huge lens. The safari was around the town at the sites, being instructed by a photographer on how to take better photos. This included looking at the old brothels which they celebrate, but still continue to persecute whores in the present day. Thankfully I had pocketed the small lens. But that still meant lugging around the useless, heavy birding lens.
The instructor on our trip was Randy Kirby. His photography company is called Bear Paw. For this trip he was guiding, he was working for Ketchikan Photo Safari.
Oh, and it rained.
We also visited a waterfall behind a shopping mall, where there were many mini buses from the ships bringing in staff to buy necessities. Ketchikan is a busy port with up to eight liners there. Most stop to fill up with water.
After the falls, we went on to a museum of Totem Poles.
I did learn from the photo lessons, including some interesting techniques with a mobile phone.
