【夏日旅游分享】Alaska! Alaska! - Whittier, a neat little port

To save us some driving, we chose to take the ferry to cross the Prince William Sound and that took us to a neat little port named Whittier. Whittier had a tiny population of 177 as of 2006, but still it was clean and comfortable.

Knowing how tiny its population was, the number of boats in its harbor looked rather respectable. See the first photo below.

To appreciate why I keep saying that Whittier is neat, one only needs to look at the second and third photos below of a seafood restaurant. A quick question: what are the differences between these two photos?

Finally, we saw a plaque there with the poem "Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep" on it, remembering their people lost in the pristine waters. Interestingly, on this 1998 plaque, the poem was attributed to the Michoh Indians. Wikipedia, however, unequivocally attributes the poem to Mary Elizabeth Frye and indicates the authorship was established also in 1998. Isn't that interesting? Moreover, in the same month we went there, Sportwoman also posted and translated this poem on this forum. See here for her original post. <bbs.wenxuecity.com/mysj/190696.html> Surely this can't simply be coincidence!

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2014.8.29

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• The second one is not open, the third one is open with outside s -南山松- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/30/2014 postreply 05:01:06

• Good eye! -冲浪潜水员- ♂ (299 bytes) () 08/30/2014 postreply 09:34:37

• I thought you took the chalkboard away for the magic photos^_^ -京燕花园- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/30/2014 postreply 12:02:59

• Haha! *_* -冲浪潜水员- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/30/2014 postreply 17:14:18

• "Prince William Sound" rang a bell. -珈玥- ♀ (257 bytes) () 08/30/2014 postreply 19:33:55

• Good memory! -冲浪潜水员- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/30/2014 postreply 22:11:23

• Oh, CL! My dream place. Thx for sharing your experience. Did you -rockcurrent- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/30/2014 postreply 23:58:59

• Hi, RC, how have you been? Have a nice Sunday. -珈玥- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/31/2014 postreply 07:50:33

• Hi, RC, what was your question? And, what is CL? -冲浪潜水员- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/31/2014 postreply 11:18:42

• My guess: CL are the initials for your name Chong Lang. -珈玥- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/31/2014 postreply 16:46:31

• Oops, my initials are S.D -冲浪潜水员- ♂ (2 bytes) () 09/01/2014 postreply 07:51:15