More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Haines

From the newspaper police blotter:
Mon. Jul. 28. A person reported two bikes had been left at their business over a week. A person reported finding juveniles camped on their property and reported the young people were angry and shinning a strobe light into the house. Sun Jul. 27 A person reported a bear had eaten five ducks in their yard on Oslund Drive. The caller attempted to scare away the bear by banging pots and pans, but said the bear returned within 10 minutes.

We get a day of kayaking. We met some really friendly people at church on Sunday and when we said we would like to kayak they said they would be happy to contact a friend of theirs who likes to get people kayaking. It works, and Alan picks us up at our B&B and takes us to the launch point. He provides two very nice boats, equipment, a map and a push off from the negative low tide mud. We head down past two large glaciers. We see several eagles, a pigeon guillemot, and a number of other birds. Adventure Girl decides we should paddle out past the point called Seduction Point where we get to see into two inlets. The price for this is sore muscles from 5 1/2 hours of paddling, which is more than we have done in a while. And we had a boost back from a light favorable wind and a strong favorable current. The tide is over 17 feet today. Big tides here, don’t leave home without a tide book.

On Tuesday we could not located Susan's iphone. We contact the ferry and sure enough it was picked up on the last run yesterday. Its safe in Skagway and soon on the next ferry back to us. Another reason to like Alaska.