Daily Didactic
The day began a little early with a most amazing eggs benedict breakfast at the hands of our B&B hostess Ann. After breakfast and some visiting with guests from New York and Los Angeles, Ann mapped us out a walking tour of Sitka. We headed off and stopped at the old Sitka cemetery and the national cemetery, the fish hatchery again, and the Sitka National Park which is full of totem poles collected around the 1900's from abandonded native villages in the SouthEast.

We walked back through downtown Sitka to have some awesome kabobs at 'Two Chicks and a Stick', and wandered downtown a little more before heading back to the B&B to grab the bus for a drive up Harbor Mountain. Harbor Mountain road was a fun one, but has recently had a lot of new sharp rock added. We tiptoed up it in the bus for the better part of an hour before coming to a parking spot. We hiked the last half mile to an incredible overlook, with the town of Sitka on one side and a beautiful view of Sitka Sound to the north.

We ended up south on Sawmill Creek Road at a pizza place for dinner, took advantage of the hot tub at the B&B when we got back, and hit the hay at a relatively reasonable hour in order to do a little morning touristing before catching to ferry to Juneau tomorrow.

Morning at Ann's Gavin Hill B&B		The old cemetery
Sitka's National Cemetery		Art under the tanks at the Sage Building aquarium and hatchery
Sitka National Historical Park, a huge collection of totem poles on a pleasant walking loop		Todd and Cori, modeling in front of the Fertility Pole
Everybody's got one		A colorful, if not confusing totem
Looking back up the beach at Sitka from the walking trail		A cool totem with an unusual top
We'd heard this, we're okay with it		An eagle on a stick
Rain etiquette		Our buddies in the back of the bus
Quite a road it turns out, it was met with varying levels of joy		Cori gives the top a big thumbs up
Tough trees in front of the ridge		The goat and Todd's trail
The trail for the rest of us		A beautiful view of Mount Edgecumbe
Todd, eyeing the view of Sitka		The view of Sitka he had
Us, trying to stay out of Sitka's way		Looking back toward toward the ferry terminal
A great tree with what we are guessing is a difficult life weatherwise		Pretty flower
Heading down		Cori got distracted by a little machinery

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