{"id":5034,"date":"2018-07-22T17:05:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T00:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=5034"},"modified":"2018-07-24T15:34:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T22:34:17","slug":"riverside-ketchikan-alaska-07-19-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=5034","title":{"rendered":"Riverside \u2013 Ketchikan, Alaska \u2013 [07\/19\/2018]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"When you\u2019ve been to Alaska as many time as Amras and I have, its\u2019 easy to think that you\u2019ve run out of things to see. But there\u2019s always something<\/em> \u2013 even if it\u2019s just walking around enjoying truly fresh air. Today we decided to head out to the part of town that we never really visit, because it\u2019s past the tourist area \u2013 but only 15 minutes away from the ship\u2019s dock is the Totem Heritage Center , which houses the collection of the only 44 original totems in Alaska. They are old, and weather beaten, but they are still breathtaking \u2013 kept carefully inside a museum, tucked safely out of the elements, they are no longer painted and colourful \u2013 except one or two small traces of black and blue paint on the faces. I was startled that they allowed photography, and was still very careful to turn off my flash.<\/p>\n

Right next to the heritage center is the city park \u2013 which I had never been too. Small but beautiful, it\u2019s full of wandering ponds and tiny waterfalls that make the kind of sound we really miss out here. Something about rushing water makes me feel incredibly at home. And no, living on<\/em> the water doesn\u2019t have the same soundtrack. There\u2019s something different about it. I swim in the ocean for hours, but I think I could sit by the river for days. There is a river that runs through Ketchikan, and at certain points, which gave me the chance to get some really nice pictures! Also, next door to the city park is a salmon hatchery (not to be confused with a farm, I actually found out that it is illegal to farm finned fish in Alaska) \u2013 so I now have a bunch of pictures of little itty bitty fish! They will make an excellent opening shot for this season\u2019s memory reel.<\/p>\n

Beyond the main street of town, it\u2019s obvious how much things have changed. The shop where Amras and I spent hours playing pinball has closed it\u2019s doors, as has the music store and the new age shop I used to visit all the time. They\u2019ve been replaced by other shops in some cases, but are just as frequently empty store fronts, which I find very sad. It\u2019s as if no one wants to bother coming up the road past the big tourist places \u2013 that\u2019s a shame, because there\u2019s a lot of cool stuff up there. One of the local movie rental places is going out of business so we were able to pick up a bunch of new games ,and I now finally own Inside Out<\/em>, which makes me possibly more happy than it should.<\/p>\n

And all the pictures I took at the museum came out nearly completely black because I had the wrong settings but hey\u2026it\u2019s a learning experience right!?<\/p>\n

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When you\u2019ve been to Alaska as many time as Amras and I have, its\u2019 easy to think that you\u2019ve run out of things to see. But there\u2019s always something \u2013 even if it\u2019s just walking around enjoying truly fresh air. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,102,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska","category-steam-heat-2018","category-summer-contracts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-1jc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5036,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5034\/revisions\/5036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}