Day 6 - Ketchikan...

Day 6 we arrived in our last port, Ketchikan. My parents had Jack again so Aya and I selected the Rain forest zipline expedition. Aya actually made this pick and I was surprised. I had picked a zipline course as well but I picked an easier one.

This course had 8 ziplines and 3 rope bridges. The longest zipline was 850 feet and the fastest zipline we went abour 35 miles per hour.

I was a little nervous because I am scared of heights but I figured if Aya can do it then I can do it as well. Aya was all geared up and ready to go:

It was a huge rush to go on the zipline. I wasn't scared on the zipline at all, but I was more nervous waiting my turn as 6 of us were bunched around a tree waiting for our turn. Aya was the ONLY non-scaredy cat of the group as she just hung on the side or over the edge of the platform. Most of us just hugged the tree and didn't trust our rope and caribbeaner.

Here is Aya about halfway down the 850 ft zipline:

See it really is Aya and not some other customer:

Sadly this little expedition cost me a little more than I expected. The guides forced us to tie our digital camera to our harness. On one of the zipline my camera must have hit my caribeanner and it cracked my LCD so the rest of the trip I had to take pictures old school style thru the view finder.

After our zipline we headed into Ketchikan and we saw salmon literally jumping out of the water. You can not use any bait to catch the salmon. You are allowed to catch 50 salmon a day but only keep 6.

Aya with her daily limit: