This is the best retaining wall I saw on my trip...

Saxman Point totem pole park...

Saxman Point totem (detail)

Saxman Point Park totem

Longhouse at Saxman Point

Saxman Point Park

Back in Ketchikan at Saxman Point Totem Pole Park

This is a major attraction in Ketchikan -- a collection of totem poles moved to this park on First Nations land at Saxman Point.

The cannery from the trail in the woods...

George Bay, Tongass Narrows.

Old buoys at the cannery

Cooking canned salmon at the cannery

These are the cookers where freshly tinned salmon was pressure cooked before being shipped to Seattle for labelling.

More on the canning line...

The canning line ... 2

At the cannery

A 1930's canning line.  At peak times, they had three lines running 24/7.  The biggest injury to workers was deafness.  The machinery is very loud as it forms the cans step-by-step.

George Bay Cannery

Operating 1914 through the 1960's, canning salmon.

It's now open for tourism tours and used by a fishers' co-op to store their gear off season.

There is no beach...

The shoreline is granite.  Straight up.

This shows the high water line and the black lichen growing on the rocks there.

Eagles, nesting along the shore in the Tongass Narrows

Heading into George Bay in the Tongass Narrows

Tongass Narrows

From the water.  Not raining yet!