At the Seattle Boat Show some of the smaller Alaska communities send representatives from their ports to encourage recreational boaters to visit. While talking with the Wrangell Harbor master, she claimed that Wrangell had the best 4th of July celebration in SE Alaska.
After spending the extended holiday weekend in Wrangell, we can’t say their the best since we haven’t seen other towns but Wrangell sets a pretty high bar for the others. If they can work on the weather, they’d be hard to beat. Here is a collection of photos from the events we saw.
| They had a “trash fishing” tournament for kids and anything caught with a hand line at the city dock counted. |  |
 | Of course, there was a parade down main street. |
They had a logging contest involving various cutting skills and a log rolling contest (brrrr!). |  |
| The festivities culminated in a fireworks display over the harbor done by the fire fighters that was pretty impressive. |  |
Our friends, Ginny & Ken Crowder, flew in from Seattle the morning of the 4th and experienced a true small-town Alaska celebration.
From Wrangell, we head north through Wrangell Narrows, spend a night in Petersburg, and work our way to Sitka where the Crowders will fly back home.
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