Hammer Museum & Waiting for the ferry to Skagway

Before we left the campground to go to the Alaska Ferry Terminal, we moved the RV to a 50 amp campsite and plugged in to the electric at it. Our Energy Management Panel worked correctly, so the problem we had yesterday seems to occur when we are plugged in to 30 amp service.

When we arrived at the Ferry Terminal, we parked the RV in our assigned lane (lane 9) and then went in to the Terminal and checked in for the 8:30 p.m. ferry.

We then drove out to Chilkoot Lake State Recreation Site in the car and stopped to look at the lake.

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We saw this bald eagle land in a tree across from us.

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We met this couple from the Netherlands at Chilkoot Lake and we compared photos we had taken of the bald eagle.

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We walked down to the boat ramp and Tinker dipped his paws in the lake and took a drink.

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After driving through the campground (we found a couple of sites that our motorhome would fit in) at Chilkoot Lake, we drove back along the Chilkoot River and took photos of some of the houses there.

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We returned to the RV and had lunch before driving back into Haines to visit the Hammer Museum.

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We entered the museum and paid the $3 admission for each of us and saw every wall was covered with hammers. The hammers were organized by type or by the industry they were used in.

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Mike was especially interested to see this one - the Bell Helicopter Rotor-Blade Tapping Handle. Mike said when he was in the Army they used to use a nickel to tap on the rotor blades to locate bonding voids since they didn't have this hammer in the tool room.

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There are over 1500 hammers in the museum and 2 more came by mail while we were there.

We stopped in at the Rusty Compass Coffeehouse for some coffee before heading back to the RV.

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We bought some cinnamon rolls and ate 2 with our coffee and brought the rest back with us to eat later. The cinnamon rolls we had here were smaller than the ones we got from the Bear Den yesterday, but were much better.

When we got back to the Ferry Terminal, we parked the car in Lane 2 – our assigned lane for the ferry. We spent the rest of the afternoon and evening sitting in the RV watching DVDs until it was time to get ready to board the ferry.

See my next post about our ferry ride to Skagway.