Final Alaska cruise post

This is my last cruise post, wrapping up the final two days of our Alaskan adventure. After our crab pot run and crab feast in the morning, we walked off some of the calories in Ketchikan that afternoon. It's a picturesque town, and I especially enjoyed Creek Street. A boardwalk built atop the water on pilings, it was the former red light district now housing various shops. I recall the green building named Dolly's was just one in a string of brothels along this stretch. I also snapped a pic of a totem pole on display there in the downtown area.

My eagle eyes spied a Christmas store, much to the husband's dismay, where I was pleasantly surprised to locate a set of never seen before matryoshka Santas I just had to have. I bought some generic Alaska souvenirs for the kids, as well as some flu meds for me. Thanks to the cruise crud I picked up, I was still mourning the fact that I had missed the Yukon train excursion day because I ran a fever overnight and had no energy to battle the tourist crowds. 

Our final cruising day was spent traveling through Alaska's Inside Passage into British Columbia where we disembarked the next morning in Vancouver. The scenery was a beautiful blue for much of the route (see unfiltered pics below), dotted with various structures every so often. We saw other boats, as well as some wildlife along the way, including more whales and a couple different pods of porpoises. It was a wonderful way to end this memorable trip.