Started today at the Alaska Raptor Center, which nurses back to health injured or sick birds of prey, including bald eagles. They make every effort to return the birds to the wild but some are not capable so they end up in a zoo or stay at the Center for educational purposes. We then grabbed a picnic lunch at Subway and drove to the top of Harbor Mountain. The road is a very narrow, winding gravel road to the top of the mountain overlooking Sitka and the water. Sandi was a little worried about bears so she had her picnic in the Jeep. By the time we got down from the mountain it’s the middle of the afternoon and only one more thing in town that we can do---yep, a museum. So, we gave in and headed to the Sheldon Jackson Museum. Sheldon Jackson was a Presbyterian minister in Sitka in the late 1800’s and started collecting Indian artifacts. There is a college here of the same name. What we saw was a small part of his collection but it was a very nice museum with loads of interesting things. We were glad that we went.
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