Day 2: Sitka

 Our first day was in Sitka! (and yes I did keep quoting that line from The Proposal, all day long)

We had a loose plan of going to the Raptor Center, and a national park. So we walked over to the Raptor Center and had a cool presentation on eagles. 

Then we got to walk around the grounds for a bit, looking at many different birds, and then got into a presentation on owls! 

It was so neat! After we finished here, we found some crab legs for lunch (for those who eat that stuff, I had a hamburger haha) and then we made our way over to the National Historical Park. We walked around looking at salmon for a bit (it's their ...breeding season I think they said, so they were absolutely plentiful)

(this eagle was just chilling the whole time)

(eh you might not be able to see the fish but they're there)

And then we ended up going on a small tour of the totems! We found out that there's a thing called a Shame Totem - where if someone did something to make a person mad, they sometimes would make a shame totem so that the person (and everyone else!) would know what they did! That is so funny to me, what a petty thing to do. I love it. 

After some more wandering around the city, we headed back to the ship and took our leave.