Monday, August 29, 2011

There are 700 residents of Hoonah, a village that has managed to replace the diminishing fishing and lumber industries with tourism. It’s quite a site: truly, the town quadruples in size every time one of these leviathan ships pulls into port. Rene and I traded vehicles for a 2-person sea kayak to cruise around the bay. We spotted many bald eagles flying overhead. (This was much improved over our last kayak adventure, when we were accompanied by porpoises to a lovely little inlet in Hawai’I, but had to return to a cement dock as high tide was rolling in. I dutifully recited my Act of Contrition then.)  This ride was silky smooth, although the Pacific is one very frightening ocean, not at all akin to our dear Cape May County shore.

 An eagle family, including 3 eaglets, spend the day watching the tourists.