June 16 Petersburg (A taste of Norway)

We had a gloriously beautiful trip up here today from Wrangell. The weather has turned sunny and warm and the water was perfect. We are getting good at timing our passages and today was the BIG challenge coming through Wrangell Narrows...the current changes mid way through and you want the tide to be changing when you enter that section. It worked great and we arrived at about 3PM

Petersburg is known for it's Norwegian heritage. It is a small, clean, neatly laid out town with a population of just 3600. It is known as the halibut capital of Alaska as it's economy depends on its fishing fleet and seafood processing plants. It is the major fish-processing center in SE Alaska. We are currently docked in amongst fishing boats of all sizes and our directions to the particular docks were along the line of "go past the green fish processing plant, take a right turn at the stern of a BIG fishing boat, go down 8 slips and your is in between the boat covered with blue tarps and one named Gina." Obviously we found it.

And by the way for you boaters...when was the last time you got overnight moorage for just 35 cents a foot? That amounts to just $11 plus $4 for electricity for our "cute ltttle tug"...pretty affordable and we don't even have to go to a tavern for our shower!!!

We decided it was time for a bit of resting up so we will stay here 3 nights before heading towards Juneau and several stops along the way. I might even get my hair trimmed tomorrow and check out the tourist info and other items of interest. Beautiful totem poles, norwegian viking ship replicas and such.

Take care all.

Linda & Gary
"We have a weird and wonderful relationship...he's weird and I'm wonderful!"

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