Cruise North: Having fun in Petersburg

Petersburg definitely gets a lot of rain, but we lucked out with out getting a drop of rain yesterday. And it didn't rain last night either, but it did start raining about noon today and it looks like it will continue thru the night. Hard to tell about tomorrow, but if we had to guess we'd say there is a 70% chance of rain tomorrow - at some point during the day. We may now qualify as a weather forecaster in Petersburg.

Today is our last day in Petersburg, before we go further north. But as Brad's cell phone hasn't arrived, we know we'll be back soon. At this point, it looks like we'll leave in the morning to go to Admiralty Island, which is famous for having a lot of bears. We'll anchor in Snug Bay, inside of Gambier Bay and then move on to Windfall Harbor, where we plan to go explore the bears at Pack Creek. From there we'll move up to Tracy Arm and explore Sawyer Glacier.

Petersburg is on Mitkoff Island and to go north we go thru Frederick Sound, which has an estimated 500++ humpback whales feeding in the area. As we'll be crossing thru this sound as we head north, plus when we come back south to Petersburg to pick up Brad's phone, we hope to see quite a few whales. But during this time we won't have internet access, nor phone access, until we get back to Petersburg in about a week.

As this is our last update for awhile, I wanted to share a few photos of Petersburg.

Many of the walkways are beautifully decorated. Here is one of my favorites:

Many of the homes and shops have delightful flower gardens and baskets. I thought this one, reflecting the hull of a boat, was very cute.

Also, many of the homes and shops have beautiful Norweigian style painting on the outside. Oh, we've also seen them painting the outside of homes, businesses & boats while it is raining.