Again we docked at a very long dock. Icy Strait opened to cruise ship traffic in 2003. At that time passengers had to tender into shore. Tendering is very difficult for people with mobility problems so the Elders of the tribe did counts on how many people were visiting and submitted them to prove that they could really use the dock. This dock was built and they even have an "overgrown" golf cart running back and forth on the dock for those who have difficulty walking such a long distance.
In the past the main thing at Icy Point was the fish cannery. There was a settlement nearby so many of the workers lived there and the cannery had little houses built to house the managers of the cannery. Today these little houses are private property and people live in them.
A large portion of the cannery buildings and some of the out buildings are now used as souvenir shops and eateries but they have a nice display of the fish cleaning machine (known by the derogatory name "the iron Chink), the line where the fish were further cleaned, the machine that cut the fish into pieces, where the tins were filled, sealed and put into the retorts to cook.
Near the cannery building we saw these "rocks" lined up on the shore....they aren't rocks. An old building was built on pilings, was torn down and the pilings, which had been pounded deep into the ground were cut off, leaving these stumps.
As we were walking into the cannery there was a zip line. Apparently at the time it was built, it was the longest in the world, but someone else has since built one a bit longer. There was also an area where they had a fire burning and benches around it so people could sit and rest for awhile.
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