July 29: Visiting downtown Juneau
Today, I rode my bike the twelve miles or so to downtown Juneau.
The main road to downtown Juneau is Egan Drive and bicycles are explicitly not allowed on it. I was told there was a bicycle route that paralleled Egan Drive. This morning, I spent about 15 minutes trying to locate it. Once I realized that pedestrian walkways at big intersections will basically take you to the bicycle path, then big intersections were much easier to negotiate.
I parked my bike at the Juneau Convention Hall and Visitor Information Center and explored downtown on foot. Exploring on bicycle would have been difficult due to the amount of traffic and the number of pedestrians.
On the way back from downtown, I stopped in at the Macaulay Salmon Hatchery and Visitor Center. It is one of a group of non-profit hatcheries in Alaska whose mission is to sustain and enhance valuable salmon resources of the State of Alaska. This one is one of the largest salmon hatcheries in the world outside of Japan. It releases about 125 million young salmon into the wild each year. In 4-6 years, about 10% of those salmon will successfully return to the hatchery to spawn.
Here are some of my favorite photos from my travels today:
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