Miserable night! We hung around the hostel living room until one a.m. Then we gathered up our gear and walked a block to where the bus would pick us up. The bus arrived on schedule and got us to the ferry terminal at two, but when we bought our tickets, we found out the ferry was 2 1/2 hours late! Expected in at 5! We could have gone to bed at 8 last night and slept until 4 this morning. Of course, Roy can sleep on a clothesline, so he stretched out on the waiting room floor and promptly fell asleep. I slept on a chair for an hour but woke up with a crick in my neck, so I stretched out on three or four chairs, but loud male voices kept talking, bright lights kept shining in my face, doors kept opening and slamming, and the chairs were hard as rocks. I didn't sleep much.
A fishing boat had gone aground in the narrows, and the ferry couldn't get by until the boat was out of the way.
The ferry arrived at five but spent more than half an hour unloading, so it was nearly six by the time we reached the solarium and got into our sleeping bags. Slept most of the day. Got up to eat, take long, hot showers, listen to the ranger presentations, and look at Petersburg and Wrangell from the boat. The ferry was trying to make up time, so it just stopped long enough to unload and load; through passengers weren't allowed ashore. But it was still two hours late when it reached Ketchikan and expected to be an hour late at Prince Rupert.
Arrived in Ketchikan around midnight, hopped in a cab, and headed for the City Docks. Jofian was just as we left her. What a beautiful sight!
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