Resident Alexis Dombrock said she was more than surprised to see a deer bound along Lutak Road near the ferry terminal on May 28.

“I was in such a shock I couldn’t even take a picture,” Dombrock said. She said she was returning to town from a family trip to Chilkoot Lake around 7 p.m.

“Thirty years of living in Haines and I’ve never seen one. It was a holy cow moment,” Dombrock said.

Residents,…