Blogs from Seward, Alaska, United States, North America - page 5

We caught our connection bus from Denali to Seward in front of our hotel. It was similar to a greyhound type with large windows and bathroom in back. Our drive took close to 10 hours which included our stop in Anchorage for lunch. We drove thru rain part of the way and it was a relaxing trip. A bummer was after getting dropped in Seward at the small boat harbor we found out our chartered fishing boat trip tomorrow as cancelled because of the forecasted weather. I guess 12 foot seas and 36 mph gusts are not great fishing weather...disappointing. I'm glad we still have the fishing in icy straight to look forward to. Our weather in town sounds good though for tomorrow so we booked a sled dog tour with a family of ididorad winners. ... read more

Today’s adventure was learning all about an event that draws mushers from around the world, the Iditarod. We visited Seaveys which is a family owned operation that has been participating in the race for many years. In 2004 Mitch Seavey won the race and in 2011 his son won the race and his grandson won the juniors competition. The family property, training ground and kennel contain about 85 dogs where are used to race every year. The biggest myth that was busted for me was that the racing dogs do not look like Siberian huskies. They are thin but man are they strong and have a strong desire to pull. They tolerate the cold very well. They did have one Siberian Huskie but they don’t’ use him much for pulling. To give you an idea of ... read more

Another chilly, rainy day. Didn't do much today. I am attaching a picture of Jim, Charlie and Barbara cooking hot dogs at lunch on a fire by our RV's. We also had s'mores. It would have been better if it hadn't been drizzling rain. We went to Church tonight and then went out to eat. We ate at a restaurant on the docks next to the fishing boats. Next to us was a fish market that also cleaned the fish that the charter boats brought in. We could see the men cleaning the fish from the restaurant. There were 12 cleaning stations and they were very fast at their work. There were some very big fish. One fish, a halibut, took two men to get it up on the cleaning station. But, he made short work ... read more

Wednesday and Thursday turned out to be absolutely beautiful and according to the locals the first nice days this year! We had a really restful night despite not having much in the way of room darkening blinds...sunlight until midnight here! Wednesday, July 25: We set out mid-morning on our adventure aboard the Kenai Fjord Aialik Voyager. It is basically a cat-hull tour boat with inside and outside seating on 2 levels. Our 6 hour tour took us deep into the Kenai Fjords National Park. Not only was the weather beautiful, the waters of Resurrection Bay and the North Pacific were very calm. We did have some really spectacular fog that they call glacial fog. It hung low, above the water but below the snow covered peaks. It was fascinating. This was an incredible adventure. We came ... read more

15-16th July ’12 The Cruise – Leaving Seaward and on towards Glacier Bay We drove back into Seaward and before dropping the car off went up to the cruise dock to drop our rucksacks off. The two blokes at the luggage store just looked incredulous when we handed in our rucksacks and wanted to know where the rest of our bags were. I must say our little rucksacks looked a sorry sight on top of the sea of huge suitcases! Once the car was returned we were given a lift back to the ship and after being photographed and scanned we were allowed to board. As we had booked on a late deal and opted for the cabin with an obstructed view – with a note to say it had no view at all, but this ... read more