When you take a trip with Alaska Canoe Experience in Ketchikan, it’s more than a pleasant jaunt on the water. It’s part of a spiritual journey that reflects hundreds of years of the history of Alaska’s First Peoples.
If you plan your trip in July, you may witness a rare phenomenon known as bubble-netting, a new and specialized feeding technique unique to Southeast Alaska humpbacks and regularly practiced by only about 60 whales in the area.
There are 5 types of salmon that swim in Alaska’s streams: (1) chum (thumb) (2) sockeye (pointer finger sock-your-eye-out) (3) king (middle finger) (4) silver (ring finger) (5) pink (pinky finger.)
This is bear country — the Yukon alone is home to an estimated 10,000 black bears and 6,000 to 7,000 grizzly bears.
During the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898, the newly built town of Skagway, Alaska housed 80 (illegal) saloons. Saloons were the lifeblood of the community.
Katie Harms has an interest “in all things fish and all things ocean.”
