As you can see in this picture, we arrived in Sitka early this morning, for another rainy and chilly day. We took our time getting off the ship as we had no schedule to follow. The Sitka cruise terminal is quite a ways from town and they have a very nice retail building here. But they run a free shuttle bus into town for all the cruise passengers. Our bus driver mentioned that the cost of living is pretty high here, with bread costing $10/loaf. He also mentioned how all the high school athletic teams have to fly to any out of town matches!
We walked around town, visiting a few gift shops. Sitka has strong Russian heritage and was the regional capital before it was purchased by the USA in 1867. The Lutheran church on the left was founded in 1840 by the Finnish Lutheran church. The Russian Orthodox church was not open when we were in town so you only get an outside picture.
After spending too much time in the rain, we headed back to the ship for lunch. Sail away is at 4pm today so we can get to Ketchikan by 7am tomorrow.
3 comments:
I enjoyed hearing about your
day and the Lutheran Church picture is very nice. The Orthodox Church picture is good too.
I was wishing I could see the paraments better in the Lutheran Church; interesting that they were a white background. I hope you get a sunny day tomorrow!
Sorry about all the rain , hoping for a sunny day for tomorrow . $10 a loaf for bread , I thought $5.70 AU was bad [just worked $10 US out in Australian that is close to $15 AU , yikes ]. Enjoy the day
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