A float plane tour for me!
5/5
Today I went on one of the best trips I have ever been on. We got into Petersburg just as we were eating breakfast, then I caught a shuttle to another dock, the public float-plane dock. Six people including myself got into the navy blue float-plane and had the trip of our lives. After clearing our take off the pilot went out of the harbor and into the ocean, where we took off, just like on a runway. From there we flew north to a valley where there were several glaciers, the biggest being nearly 4,000 feet deep. I had absolutely no idea the magnitude of it all, until I laid my own two eyes on them. The colors, the extremes, the way the ice melts in chunks making a pattern across the top of the glacier that seems so fragile, yet so ragged. On our way up we flew over the top of mountains that have been carved by glaciers, so that we could witness first hand the effects of the ice, in many different stages. The power is awesome. Mother nature is awesome. Once we got to the glaciers themselves, I was amazed at the way the plane could circle the same area for so long, we got such a good view from so many angles. If you have never witnessed the things I am describing right now first hand, you need to. It’s that amazing.
After flying around the glaciers for a while the pilot took us on a little tour of the area around Petersburg. The area is known for fishing and the season is just now starting, so we saw some fishing boats heading out. He explained the different types of fishing that are done here, trawling and netting. After that he showed us the town of Petersburg and where the hot steelhead fishing hole was on the Petersburg Creek. Once we got all that we had to head back, but it was enough. this is not the kind of thing that one needs to be greedy about.
The rest of the day we just cruised up the Alaska coast line, we are headed for Sitka tomorrow. I can’t wait.
