As I predicted, I slept through our port visit at Ketchikan. Actually I didn’t SLEEP through it; I just stayed in bed. Docking in port and numerous announcements over the P.A. made sure that I wasn’t going to sleep. Back at sea, I woke up just before sunrise and saw partly cloudy skies. I dressed quickly and ran out on deck to get a few sunrise photos and then went to the cafeteria for some really good biscuits and gravy. Late morning we arrived in Wrangell, a very small Alaskan town that, like many others, cannot be reached by road. You can only get here by ferry or plane. We had about 90 minutes in port, so I walked into town for a short visit. I had a nice conversation with a lady in a gift
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