I got the chance to visit Ketchikan about 25 years ago. My husband and I helped some dear friends move from Ketchikan back to Arizona. I got to see the totems at Saxman, but we did not get to do a tour as we were quite busy helping our friends. Now I really wish we had. In fact it looks like we missed quite a few very cool things. We did get to go on a tour to the Misty Fiords, that was a lot of fun and oh so beautiful , we got to drink some water that comes straight off a glacier, it was the best water I have ever had!
My wife and I have been absolutely captivated by your journey, and we feel as though we have vicariously lived it with you. Thank you so much for this. Your vision and bold spirit are both inspiring and mesmerizing. Your narration is poetry, and your vision makes a two dimensional video spring into reality in our living room. We lost ourselves in the moment - rarely if ever has a TH-cam video had such a visceral impact. We wish you peace, happiness, and a life full of smiles and love. In gratitude.
Andy, words and feedback like this are all an artist ever wants to hear. Thank you so much for taking the time to send us this kind note. It means everything and is fuel to keep going! -C & J
I live in Ketchikan, so neat seeing an outsider's perspective, you made our little town look much more interesting than it feels to locals like me ha ha. Thanks for the flattering video.
This just gets better....... Having grown up on Canada's west coast in Victoria B.C., as a kid, I spent summers on my parents boat, traveling the west coast, including to Alaska. Definitely changed in 50 years. So cool to revisit. Thanks for taking us along. Looking forward to your next video, traveling the inside passage, having been there too ! Cheers, and thank you again.
Cora and Jose' thanks so much for expanding our exposure to Ketchikan. Cindy and I stopped by briefly on our Alaskan cruise last year. Did I hear eagles on your Rainbird trail hike? I did have the time to enjoy a walk on Creek Street 👍
We were so bummed to miss seeing y'all in Ketchikan by just one day! We were blessed to have amazing weather though, and with a rented car, we drove from the northernmost to the southernmost ends of the pavement around town! There are so many incredible vistas and places to see, and you went to lots of great ones!
Love this video! We will coming to Ketchikan in September on a cruise and this video is soooo helpful! We won't have too much time so I'm trying to pick and choose what to do. We were thinking of attending the Lumberjack Show. I know it's a little touristy but it looks fun. We would love to hear your insights on this. Thanks!
Hey Peg! Oh you are going to have so much fun!! I'm happy the video was helpful :) We didn't do the Lumberjack Show ourselves, but we could hear the crowd every time it was playing. It certainly sounded like folks were having a good time and enjoying the show! I wonder if there are some youtube videos out there that show what it's like?
Another fabulous TH-cam adventure! I absolutely love the video and still photography along with a superb sound track...simply world class. In 2022 I shared time with Master Carver Nathan Jackson in Saxman Village and I believe it was life changing for me and my artistic journey. Master Jackson encouraged my mixed media photography and gave me invaluable tips on color and composition. He is one of a kind and incredibly nice as well. Thank you for showing Ketchikan in such a favorable light...it is perhaps my favorite place to stay in all of Alaska.
Oh wow, that is amazing! We felt so lucky and surprised when he walked into the carving center. It was such an honor. It sounds like you felt the same when you met him!
A great tour of the town video! You really got a feel for the atmosphere and pace of the area. I can imagine Jose Luis loved chatting with the artist/carver. Such a great experience over all.
thankyounfor your tour of ketichan ..I'm 69 and cannot do your hike, but it was wonderdful seeing your travels , I really want to do the tour to the monuments..Im going on a cruise in September, and will pre book this, as it is so educational about the origins, I am from Australia, and cant go past the similarities to the Maori culture in New Zealand .. astoundiunding, as well as the culture in Hawaii...amazing...
Enjoying this Ketchikan video. We visited last year at the end of our cruise. I really like the Totem Heritage Center and walking on the boardwalk. We didn't do the Rainbird Trail but instead rented a car for day to hike the trails north of Ward Cove. You should've busted Hump Island Oyster Farm while there. Yum.
Ooh that must have been fun to hit up the trails by Ward Cove! Yes, it was difficult to narrow down our activities while there - so much to do, so little time!
Very nicely done video! A few points: I lived in coastal Alaska for 33 years, where I was a habitat biologist. I worked out of Ketchikan in the 1990s when it was a VERY different town. I expect you know that the rainbird trail goes through an old clearcut. You have to get well out of town to see true old-growth forest. Visitors can get to these areas if they wish. Note that Hyder, AK is also accessible by road, though it has limited tourist infrastructure. Finally, I am surprised that you didn't go to Soho Coho, the shop of probably Alaska's best-known artist, Ray Troll. If you return, it is a must-see! I am subscribing...
Thanks for subscribing! Yes, unfortunately there was still so much we couldn't do in Ketchikan, with our crazy short visit time. We got a taste of what Alaska visits are like for more tourists - much too short!
Sadly cruise passengers really don't have enough time to enjoy the tow. Spending a few days, like you did, is a better way to go. Did you stop in to the Bawden Street Brewery across from where you stayed? The staff is very friendly and can give you some good tips on what to see, where to eat, etc. I used to live in Ketchikan and sorely miss it!!!
Agreed! A couple hours in town really doesn't cut it. We saw that brewery and wanted to stop in, but we were so swamped with our filming schedule + post production on past episodes, we just couldn't swing it :(
Hi there, thank you so much for watching! For this video we used the Canon R5 Mirrorless camera, which we just upgraded to right before filming for this video.
Oh it was packed for us too! Sometimes when it was raining, there were a lot fewer folks on the streets. And we were surprised we didn’t see more folks on Rainbird, but I guess if you only have a few hours in port…not a lot of folks choose a hike! 😢
2:09 we have around 12,000 there's areas like Saxman and the borough which are technically out of city limits but are the same community and pretty much same place a few more people live here if you count Pennec and Gravina which I would. 8:00 is 65 degrees considered cold in lower 48? also no local uses umbrellas you'll stick out and look gay "oh no the rain". 8:56 Tsimshian lived in Canada till the residents of Metlakatla originally in BC asked the US government for land so they could move out and they moved the entire village that's around how the story goes and the Haida had a tiny sliver of land the vast majority was Tlinget
You know, people spend thousands of dollars to come to your town, two weeks of full time work to produce a video that has nothing but beautiful things to say, a video that will (we hope) help support the tourism industry in your town…and all you have to share are criticisms? The 2020 census puts Ketchikan’s population at 8,168. Everyone understands the difference between city limits and population data and surroundings areas. Yes, 65 and rainy is cold to some people. Umbrellas are handy in the rain. And every gosh darn educational plaque in the Southeast lumps the Tsimshian, Haida, and Tlingit together when the focus of the content is to give broad brushstrokes, rather than a deeper dive into the history of each group. Maybe before jumping so quickly into criticism and then vocalizing it, you can think for a second about the people behind the work that you are judging. We aren’t some rich TH-camrs just swinging our way around trying to make a buck off of communities that aren’t ours. We have made $100 off this video, and we barely scrape by every month from this channel. We are busting our butts trying to build a channel that takes people to places and helps them appreciate the beauty of places across the Americas. We chose Ketchikan to visit, and spent WEEKS researching, learning, planning, filming, editing. I don’t know, if someone chose my hometown and came and produced a video like this for it…I’d be flattered. Cora out.
@@ArtWeThereYet I wasn't insulting and I was flattered I was just letting you know some more things bout the town but the fact that I only had to mention 2 mins out of 30 means you did a good job
Hey guys, this is without a doubt the best presentation of Ketchikan we've seen yet. I just recently found your channel and started enjoying some of your other videos, you really do a great job! I've personally been there a number of times carving poles for a private park and wanted to share my "behind the scenes" video with you. It's very primitive and mainly just a way to organize some of my old photos & memories from the experience. What a wonderful place... This is in no way intended to promote myself or solicit traffic, I thought you might have interest in seeing them and please feel free to delete my comment if you don't like the distraction on your channel. (after you watch the video!) Thank you and have a great day! Joe & Nelli (from Russia and Pennsylvania) th-cam.com/video/QaZzYBK43mk/w-d-xo.html
![Top 10 Must-Do Activities in Juneau, Alaska [S1-E34]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/2kcoUH78EDg/mqdefault.jpg)
![Top 10 Must-Do Activities in Juneau, Alaska [S1-E34]](/img/tr.png)
![National Geographic's Epic Voyage through Alaska's Inside Passage [S1-E33]](/img/n.gif)
🎉POLL TIME! Could you live in a town only accessible by boat or plane?
It depends of how easy were to reach a hospital or a pharmacy just in case. No more problem on living alone.
Probably not Cora as I'm a lifelong motorcyclist and would greatly miss my boy toy!
Yes I could.
Nope. Not full time.
@@alfredodejuan390 she said town not cabin and in Ketchikan we do obviously have a hospital
I got the chance to visit Ketchikan about 25 years ago. My husband and I helped some dear friends move from Ketchikan back to Arizona. I got to see the totems at Saxman, but we did not get to do a tour as we were quite busy helping our friends. Now I really wish we had. In fact it looks like we missed quite a few very cool things. We did get to go on a tour to the Misty Fiords, that was a lot of fun and oh so beautiful , we got to drink some water that comes straight off a glacier, it was the best water I have ever had!
My wife and I have been absolutely captivated by your journey, and we feel as though we have vicariously lived it with you. Thank you so much for this. Your vision and bold spirit are both inspiring and mesmerizing. Your narration is poetry, and your vision makes a two dimensional video spring into reality in our living room. We lost ourselves in the moment - rarely if ever has a TH-cam video had such a visceral impact. We wish you peace, happiness, and a life full of smiles and love. In gratitude.
Andy, words and feedback like this are all an artist ever wants to hear. Thank you so much for taking the time to send us this kind note. It means everything and is fuel to keep going! -C & J
I live in Ketchikan, so neat seeing an outsider's perspective, you made our little town look much more interesting than it feels to locals like me ha ha. Thanks for the flattering video.
Aw, thank you. We really did enjoy our time in your town!
We just moved to Alaska and I use your videos as a guide for trips. Thank you for all you do!
Oh gosh, that is awesome! So happy the videos are helping you enjoy your new home! Yippee!
We live in Ketchikan.
So excited to watch this and see my grandaughter dancing at Saxman. 😊
Oh that's so cool! We really love your town!
This just gets better.......
Having grown up on Canada's west coast in Victoria B.C., as a kid, I spent summers on my parents boat, traveling the west coast, including to Alaska. Definitely changed in 50 years. So cool to revisit. Thanks for taking us along.
Looking forward to your next video, traveling the inside passage, having been there too !
Cheers, and thank you again.
Eric, thanks for taking the time to send this awesome message. Cheers to taking a trip down memory lane :)
Was glad I got the opportunity to meet you two at the village store. Thank you for sharing a bit of our culture and history. Gunalchéesh ❤️🖤
Hiiiii!!!! Oh we are so happy you like how it turned out. ❤️❤️❤️
Cora and Jose' thanks so much for expanding our exposure to Ketchikan. Cindy and I stopped by briefly on our Alaskan cruise last year. Did I hear eagles on your Rainbird trail hike? I did have the time to enjoy a walk on Creek Street 👍
So happy you enjoyed it, Martin! Yep - the eagles starting singing away when we were up there. It was awesome.
Great video. One of my favorite places I have visited. Ketchikan has some of the freshest air in the world.
👍🏻
One of our favorite places too!
You two make some of the best videos out there… always enjoyable and very educational, great job!
Aw that’s so kind. Thank you!
We were so bummed to miss seeing y'all in Ketchikan by just one day! We were blessed to have amazing weather though, and with a rented car, we drove from the northernmost to the southernmost ends of the pavement around town! There are so many incredible vistas and places to see, and you went to lots of great ones!
Yeah, that was a bummer. So awesome that you guys had a great time there, though!
Love this video! We will coming to Ketchikan in September on a cruise and this video is soooo helpful! We won't have too much time so I'm trying to pick and choose what to do. We were thinking of attending the Lumberjack Show. I know it's a little touristy but it looks fun. We would love to hear your insights on this. Thanks!
Hey Peg! Oh you are going to have so much fun!! I'm happy the video was helpful :) We didn't do the Lumberjack Show ourselves, but we could hear the crowd every time it was playing. It certainly sounded like folks were having a good time and enjoying the show! I wonder if there are some youtube videos out there that show what it's like?
I really, really enjoyed this video. Your narration was so interesting, and your editing was beautiful!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Stunning camera work. ❤ I’ll be visiting in August. I can’t wait!
Thank you! And ooh have fun in Ketchikan, you will love it!
Beautiful videography coupled to informative commentary! I’ve learned soooooooo much about Alaska from your trips. Gracias
That is the best feedback ever, cause that's exactly what we hope for!
Great video photography & presentation! 1st time here, now I'm hooked and will be checking out your other videos. Thanks!
Welcome aboard! 👋😀
Another great video! Ketchikan is such a special place ❤
👌🏼👌🏼
It really is!
Another fabulous TH-cam adventure! I absolutely love the video and still photography along with a superb sound track...simply world class. In 2022 I shared time with Master Carver Nathan Jackson in Saxman Village and I believe it was life changing for me and my artistic journey.
Master Jackson encouraged my mixed media photography and gave me invaluable tips on color and composition. He is one of a kind and incredibly nice as well. Thank you for showing Ketchikan in such a favorable light...it is perhaps my favorite place to stay in all of Alaska.
Oh wow, that is amazing! We felt so lucky and surprised when he walked into the carving center. It was such an honor. It sounds like you felt the same when you met him!
Great job guys very professional video. Gonna go find more of them now
Wow, you know that in every video you put out, I think I have to do THIS! Thank you for illuminating the magic trail.
Thanks for always being on the journey with us :)
A great tour of the town video! You really got a feel for the atmosphere and pace of the area. I can imagine Jose Luis loved chatting with the artist/carver. Such a great experience over all.
Thanks Dave, we really did enjoyed this town! 🙂
Great video!! Put together very well !
Thank you
I too love Ketchikan
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very interesting and informative. Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
Such a cool place. Loved the video ☺️
Glad you enjoyed!
thankyounfor your tour of ketichan ..I'm 69 and cannot do your hike, but it was wonderdful seeing your travels , I really want to do the tour to the monuments..Im going on a cruise in September, and will pre book this, as it is so educational about the origins, I am from Australia, and cant go past the similarities to the Maori culture in New Zealand .. astoundiunding, as well as the culture in Hawaii...amazing...
So happy you are able to join these adventures with us!
GRRREAT views
Great Video 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼😊😊😊
Thank you! Cheers!
Thanks for taking us along on your adventures
Thanks for being with us on the journey!
This is a good channel
Thank you 😊
Fantastic video!!
Thank you very much!
Enjoying this Ketchikan video. We visited last year at the end of our cruise. I really like the Totem Heritage Center and walking on the boardwalk. We didn't do the Rainbird Trail but instead rented a car for day to hike the trails north of Ward Cove.
You should've busted Hump Island Oyster Farm while there. Yum.
Ooh that must have been fun to hit up the trails by Ward Cove! Yes, it was difficult to narrow down our activities while there - so much to do, so little time!
@@ArtWeThereYet We spent 3 days in Ketchikan after our cruise to explore without feeling rushed but still could spend more time at the Totem museum.
Very nicely done video!
A few points:
I lived in coastal Alaska for 33 years, where I was a habitat biologist. I worked out of Ketchikan in the 1990s when it was a VERY different town.
I expect you know that the rainbird trail goes through an old clearcut. You have to get well out of town to see true old-growth forest. Visitors can get to these areas if they wish.
Note that Hyder, AK is also accessible by road, though it has limited tourist infrastructure.
Finally, I am surprised that you didn't go to Soho Coho, the shop of probably Alaska's best-known artist, Ray Troll. If you return, it is a must-see!
I am subscribing...
Thanks for subscribing! Yes, unfortunately there was still so much we couldn't do in Ketchikan, with our crazy short visit time. We got a taste of what Alaska visits are like for more tourists - much too short!
Omg haha this was so fun to watch as I live here haha 😂
Awesome! We are so happy you enjoyed it 😊
Sadly cruise passengers really don't have enough time to enjoy the tow. Spending a few days, like you did, is a better way to go. Did you stop in to the Bawden Street Brewery across from where you stayed? The staff is very friendly and can give you some good tips on what to see, where to eat, etc. I used to live in Ketchikan and sorely miss it!!!
Agreed! A couple hours in town really doesn't cut it. We saw that brewery and wanted to stop in, but we were so swamped with our filming schedule + post production on past episodes, we just couldn't swing it :(
❤ Ketchikan
Us too!
What camera did you use to film this??? The quality is so good I forgot I was watching a youtube video a couple times lol
Hi there, thank you so much for watching! For this video we used the Canon R5 Mirrorless camera, which we just upgraded to right before filming for this video.
Great content beautiful 🎉🎉🎉😢
Thank you!!😊
@@ArtWeThereYet Join me dear friend
How did you go there with cruise ships in sick and with almost no one on the streets or trails? I just returned and it was packed with tourists!!!
Oh it was packed for us too! Sometimes when it was raining, there were a lot fewer folks on the streets. And we were surprised we didn’t see more folks on Rainbird, but I guess if you only have a few hours in port…not a lot of folks choose a hike! 😢
Watch the bears under Creek Street board walk. Yes really, we saw one there on 19th July 2024.
Oh wow!
💛💛💛
Thanks for watching! 🙏
You should have shown the reading room in the Library.
Darn, sounds like we missed quite a spot!
What time of year did you visit?
We were there mid- May!
2:09 we have around 12,000 there's areas like Saxman and the borough which are technically out of city limits but are the same community and pretty much same place a few more people live here if you count Pennec and Gravina which I would.
8:00 is 65 degrees considered cold in lower 48? also no local uses umbrellas you'll stick out and look gay "oh no the rain".
8:56 Tsimshian lived in Canada till the residents of Metlakatla originally in BC asked the US government for land so they could move out and they moved the entire village that's around how the story goes and the Haida had a tiny sliver of land the vast majority was Tlinget
You know, people spend thousands of dollars to come to your town, two weeks of full time work to produce a video that has nothing but beautiful things to say, a video that will (we hope) help support the tourism industry in your town…and all you have to share are criticisms? The 2020 census puts Ketchikan’s population at 8,168. Everyone understands the difference between city limits and population data and surroundings areas. Yes, 65 and rainy is cold to some people. Umbrellas are handy in the rain. And every gosh darn educational plaque in the Southeast lumps the Tsimshian, Haida, and Tlingit together when the focus of the content is to give broad brushstrokes, rather than a deeper dive into the history of each group.
Maybe before jumping so quickly into criticism and then vocalizing it, you can think for a second about the people behind the work that you are judging. We aren’t some rich TH-camrs just swinging our way around trying to make a buck off of communities that aren’t ours. We have made $100 off this video, and we barely scrape by every month from this channel. We are busting our butts trying to build a channel that takes people to places and helps them appreciate the beauty of places across the Americas. We chose Ketchikan to visit, and spent WEEKS researching, learning, planning, filming, editing.
I don’t know, if someone chose my hometown and came and produced a video like this for it…I’d be flattered.
Cora out.
@@ArtWeThereYet I wasn't insulting and I was flattered I was just letting you know some more things bout the town but the fact that I only had to mention 2 mins out of 30 means you did a good job
Hey guys, this is without a doubt the best presentation of Ketchikan we've seen yet. I just recently found your channel and started enjoying some of your other videos, you really do a great job! I've personally been there a number of times carving poles for a private park and wanted to share my "behind the scenes" video with you. It's very primitive and mainly just a way to organize some of my old photos & memories from the experience. What a wonderful place... This is in no way intended to promote myself or solicit traffic, I thought you might have interest in seeing them and please feel free to delete my comment if you don't like the distraction on your channel. (after you watch the video!)
Thank you and have a great day! Joe & Nelli (from Russia and Pennsylvania)
th-cam.com/video/QaZzYBK43mk/w-d-xo.html