I woke early Monday but decided to skip the yoga class. Instead, I enjoyed coffee in the lounge and
saw a humpback whale breaching the surface and spouting. They told me there had been more earlier, but
I was happy to see even one. We spent
the morning in the village of Klawock, populated mostly by Tlingits, and visited
a park where 16 totem poles had already been erected, with 6 more planned. After that we walked to a community building
where more were being carved. Many of
the ones in the park had been created after the Great Depression in the late
1920s/early 1930s. In an effort to
create jobs, the US government started a project to recreate fallen or
deteriorating totem poles; some appeared to have made their way back to Klawock
only recently. Ron and I hiked back to
the boat by ourselves after stopping at a grocery store and picking up a few
provisions.
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| Totem Pole Park |
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| A Work in Progress |
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| The walk back to the boat |
We spent the afternoon "critter hunting", which
fortunately did not involve the use of harpoons. The captain cruised around in search of
whales and we ended up in a place rich with them. It didn't matter what side of the ship you
were on; everywhere they'd breach and then the fluke would follow, gracefully
disappearing into the water again. We
also saw the occasional river otter.
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