The Inner Passage

I caught a plane from Gustavus. The arial view shows how flat it is.

To Juneau. This shows just one of the glaciers that loom over the town.

Then to Kake.

And finally to Sitka, which was covered in cloud.

Sitka is a really interesting place full of things that aren't what they seem. 

They have a Totem pole walk, which has no totem poles from Sitka. The totem poles were collected from various places in Alaska (presumably just the panhandle, as other Alaskan peoples don't make totem poles as they don't have trees that grow big enough) for the worlds fair in Chicago, but they weren't given back. Instead they went to Sitka and made a walk through the forest that was called Lover's Lane, and the totem poles were painted in the wrong colours (this has been corrected). Because they were collected in the early 1900s, they were mainly originally carved by people at or before first contact. Many of them have been refurbished or recarved on a new pole.

This is the Blarney Stone, which was taken from its traditional Tlingit site and originally used as a corner stone for a house, but is now in the sidewalk.

As this was the site of Russian government, it had a Russian orthodox bishop and his house