Off at Sparrow Fart to board our friend the Fairweather for 4 hour trip to Sitka, a town on Baranof Island south-west of Juneau beyond the Inside Passage and on the Pacific Coast. It was originally called New Archangel when the colonial capital during Imperial Russian control of Alaska in the early 1800s. Ferry travel is enjoyable, and this journey to Sitka was wonderful - although the channels between islands is mighty deep, the passage is very tight in places, so the boat follows marker buoys closely.
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