{"id":709,"date":"2018-06-24T17:56:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T00:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jupitersway.com\/?p=709"},"modified":"2018-08-17T09:24:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T16:24:14","slug":"catch-as-ketch-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jupitersway.com\/catch-as-ketch-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch as Ketch Can"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coming into the Country:\u00a0 <\/strong>All vessels arriving in Alaska from British Columbia must clear Customs and Border Protection in Ketchikan before proceeding elsewhere.\u00a0 Formalities for Jupiter and crew were easily completed by phone after securing our berth on the docks of Doyon’s Misty Fjords<\/a> busy seaplane operation.<\/p>\n

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Jupiter’s approach to Ketchikan involved avoidance of massive cruise liners<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Yellow Taxi drivers provide transport and valuable insight into life in Ketchikan, at a high cost<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Full Disclosure:<\/strong>\u00a0 Everything we have learned and are reporting about Ketchikan has been gleaned from conversation with Yellow Taxi drivers, all of whom are perceptive and outspoken; many of whom must be sourdough millionaires resulting from the usurious fares.<\/p>\n

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10 of Ketchikan’s 56 jewelry stores are found on Creek Street, historically the red-light district<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ket<\/strong>chikan<\/strong> is a small city<\/a>, laid down thinly along\u00a0Tongass Narrows<\/a>, bounded by a wilderness of steep mountains on the land side and colossal cruise ships on the sea side.<\/p>\n

Town life is dominated by arrivals and departures of these massive floating hotels and their denizens, which can at once double or triple the town’s population.\u00a0 Fortunately they do not overnight in Ketchikan.<\/p>\n