Judy and Val check out Creek Street, which was Alaska's most notorious red-light district from 1902 to 1954. The zigazgging boardwalk on pilings above Ketchikan Creek has been spruced up and converted into small shops and businesses. While in Ketchikan we decided to take a flightseeing tour of Misty Fjords National Monument. Misty Fjords includes more than two million acres of wilderness. Crystalline lakes dot a landscape blanketed by an endless forest.
Hills rise into mountains that rise into jagged peaks.
Our float plane made a landing at Lake Manzoni where we were able to step outside onto the floats and savor the incredible scenery and eerie silence of this remote wilderness. Misty Fjords was created by glaciers that carved out the U shaped valleys and leaving the 4000-foot sheer granite walls that often rise into the mists. We were some of the fortunate few who saw some blue sky. The view from the plane was stunning as we flew right over the ridges and viewed lakes, fjords and granite walls that seemed to go on forever. This is an excursion not to be missed on an Alaska cruise.