ALASKA – Haines-days three & four

July 20 Friday Another beautiful day! We could get used to this weather! We had chores to do today. The RV needed a bath and laundry was piled up! The Duck In RV&Car wash was right across the road from our park, so we spent an hour and fifteen minutes there cleaning the RV. Then I headed to the park's laundry and did the wash. It wasn't bad, I used that time to make calls home and visited with Mom, Laurie, Angela and Brooklyn. 

 Haines Hitch Up  RV Park

After all of the work was done we drove out to Chilkat State Park. There are two state parks in Haines, Chilkoot and Chilkat, named after the native tribes there. Both are scenic drives. 

Gary took this great picture of bald eagles in Chilkoot State Park

Scenic view at Chilkat State Park

July 21 Saturday Today is our last day in Haines...at 6:30PM we will be on the Alaska ferry to Juneau. We saw that a farmer's market is held each Saturday AM in Haines at the site of the South Eastern Alaska State Fair Grounds. It is much smaller place than the NY State Fair grounds, but this is a much smaller population. The farmers market is small, but quaint. 

Entrance to the Haines farmer's market

Mr. Skunk enjoying the music

View of the farmer's market

We had to get in line for boarding the ferry at 4:30ish. Gary was driving the RV on and I was driving the Jeep. This is a new experience for us, but we will get used to it as we will be doing this 4 times: Haines to Juneau, Juneau to Sitka, Sitka to Ketchikan, and Ketchikan to Prince Rupert. Each time we will put the RV & car on and then take them off at each stop to spend a few days.

 

Our ferry (Malaspina) to Juneau

RV in the ferry

  

Bow of the ship

Solarium

Docking at Juneau -- 11PM