This little town was somewhat disappointing after our fabulous day in Icy Strait Point. The weather was part of the problem. Icy Strait Point had beautiful warm sunshine. Here it was foggy and threatened rain which finally arrived just before we departed. But we did get off the ship and walked a lot.
As with most of the Alaskan towns we have been at, this towns most prominent church is the old Russian Orthodox Church.
The main shopping street (and there were only two main streets) was souvenir shop after souvenir shop. Most were normal but there were several very high end places with souvenirs ranging from a few thousand dollars to ten thousand. Wow!
So we walked to the Grocery Store. Very colorful front. We compared prices but bought nothing. Produce in particular is expensive. Asparagus which is in season in most of the US, was $8 a pound.
The non-tourist part of town is basically a fishing village. Lots of these commercial fishing boats.
But there must be some big money in town. These houses were on an island probably a mile from the city. Notice the nice transportation.
We couldn’t dock so we anchored out in the bay and used the tender to get to and from the ship. The bay is very calm so riding the tender was kind of fun. But notice how dreary the weather.
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