Looking down from the back of a cruise ship at a de Havilland Beaver float plane being launched at the Island Wings base. Most of the flightseeing trips at Ketchikan go into Misty Fiords National Monument, but bear viewing trips are also popular, and fishing and commercial charters keep the large number of float planes based at Ketchikan busy when the cruise ships leave.

This photograph is © 2014 by Murray Lundberg, and is not to be copied without express permission.