Day Sixtyfive - Jul 29, 2009
Sitka, AK
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.
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