Monday morning we were up three hours before the first breakfast place opened, so we had ample time to make the wrong pick among the two options.
We chose the bakery. Turned out it was more of a patisserie. No fresh bread. But they did serve breakfast both omelets and eggs Benedict. We asked them to go light on the potatoes and long on the tomatoes.
Breakfast came and was long on potatoes and devoid of tomatoes.
As a compensation coffee was served by the pint.
Next stop was the test paddle. Good to be on the water. No surprises with the kayaks a little back and forth with paddles but we were very happy in the end.
Now we were seriously ahead of schedule and serious tired from jet lag. Same solution as yesterday walk up and down Main Street.., all 650 m of it
Then something totally unexpected happened: The sun came out! Main Street sprung to life! The challenge now was: where to get an ice cream??
Not so easy – even though Haines is among the driest places in SE Alaska with barely 1500 mm rain per year, ice cream wasn’t a common commodity.
Finally we found a small selection at “Olerud” the main grocery shop. The situation was under control!
Speaking of selections: we noticed there were several empty baskets in the vegetable section. The explanation was straight forward: fresh produce only came to Haines once a week on Tuesdays. Today was Monday and supplies were running low.
This explained the breakfast tomato debacle: There are no tomatoes in Haines on Mondays.
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