I think it was the Captain who said that it rains 95% of the time in Ketchikan. If that's the case, the weather as we arrived today was well within the statistical norm. It was pouring down! According to our city tour guide, Ketchikan gets an average of 14 feet of rain a year, too much to measure in inches.
But wait, is that blue sky we see, or just a "sucker hole", that small patch of clear sky that makes you believe the sunshine is coming, when really you're just about to get soaked?
Nope, it really was sunshine, and lots of it. It made our visit so much more pleasant, and actually let us sit out on our balcony for the first time since we boarded the cruise ship. There must have been some flight training going on in the harbour as we watched the float planes taking off and landing, over and over in front of us. (Or it could have been the equivalent of Victoria's James Bay neighbours, buzzing the cruise ships, telling them to "Go home!") :-)
Into Canadian waters tomorrow. We cruise the Inside Passage as we make our way to Vancouver on Sunday morning.
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