It’s been a rainy couple of days in Sitka, but that hasn’t stopped this group from getting out and about and seeing town!
Everyone is making the most of it…people went to the Raptor Center, Fortress of the Bear, the Sitka National Historic Park, walked all around town, and ate a lot of meals out!
On Monday we walked into town for some dumplings at Sitka Pel’meni. There were over 9,000 cruise ship people in town, and we seriously felt it!! The main street (and everywhere we went, for that matter) was so incredibly crowded!
After lunch we popped into a native-owned store to look at some art and spotted this poster (designed by Crystal Worl of Trickster) from the April dates of Portland-based band Pink Martini (our friend Storm sings with them). Fun!
Pink Martini poster on a whale vertebrae
On Monday night we went for dinner at the Channel Club with Julie and David from Dog Star and Scott (and his friend Lisa who just joined us) from Impulse. Kevin and I both ordered another round of white king salmon, because we never see it anywhere else, and it was again delicious. Ran into Alicia and Gregg from Evenstar Kadey Krogen also having dinner there….such a nice view, even in the rain and gray!
Before Gregg and Alicia left, they thoughtfully sent us two desserts…what a nice surprise!
Both desserts were really tasty, but the deep fried oreos (with a side of kahlua ice cream) were the most surprising.
On Tuesday we did our grocery shopping (we’ll be nine or ten days until Juneau), some boat errands, and then walked into town for lunch at Beak.
At Beak we tried a few things: the massaged kale salad with berries (super good), gooseneck barnacles (good, and interesting), some salmon chowder (yum), halibut roll (like lobster rolls, really good), and a blackened ling cod sandwich (good, lots of fish!)
Oh, and we also stopped at Alaska Pure Sea Salt for some of the incredibly delicious ice cream sandwiches (their salt is great too, but we aren’t out of what we have yet). Nine bucks per ice cream sandwich and worth every penny. We brought four back to Airship to ration over the next…however long they last. Last summer we bought eight, which we loved, and they lasted a while since we cut them in halves or quarters, but it did seem a little excessive. 🙂
Tomorrow we’ll head back out Peril Strait and onto our next leg of the trip!