We didn't stop very long in Ketchikan but long enough to have some adventures. Ketchikan is named after the creek that flows through the town. It is a Tlingit word but no one is really sure what it means. It could mean "Thundering Wings of an Eagle" which is a pretty sounding name. Or it could just mean "the river belonging to Kitschk."
The creek actually runs down what is called Creek Street. There are buildings built on either side of the creek and over the creek, on stilts because there is very little land to build on, especially on the east side of the river. It used to be a not very nice part of town but now it's all museums and art galleries and pretty shops. You can still see lots and lots of salmon in the river.
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| Creek Street |
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| High up in the trees, ready to zip down! |
My big adventure for the day was zip-lining! I rode a bus and then a jeep up to the top of a mountain and then got to zip down on a series of cables. We were very high up in the trees, like 100 feet and would zip from platform to platform over a bear preserve. I really wanted to see a bear but they must have been sleeping or hunting somewhere else. Most of the people were scared, scared of being so high up but I wasn't. Ok, I was a little scared to jump off the platform but once I was zipping to the next one, I was having fun again!
Zipping off to the next adventure, hop, hop awaaaaaaaaaay!
Hedda
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