Blogs from Seward, Alaska, United States, North America - page 7

Thursday June 9th Drove a block to the harbor to board our boat that was piloted by a woman Captain. The tour guide was a National Park Ranger, who is a year round resident of Seward and, therefore, was quite knowledgeable of the area’s history and of the animals and wildlife of the Park. They handed us a very nice brochure and it listed the kinds of birds and animals we were likely to see. We had a GREAT time and saw this list of wild life: • Black Bear—saw 5 of them on the hills as we boated by---one was crossing a snow patch and Valerie got a good picture of him. • Mountain goat---saw and mother and her kid way up high on the rocky cliffs. • Dall’s porpoise---a whole bunch of them played ... read more

Landed in Seward and went straight to Kenai Fijord. Fantastic abundance of wildlife (whales, sea lions, birds, otters), and of course, more glaciers.... read more

AUGUST 27, FRIDAY WEDNESDAY … the princess worked her magic again by creating a cloudless california day in the boreal rainforests of coastal alaska … after breakfast and showers we decided to go back down to the spit and to video the spit from one end to the other for you … we didn’t stop along the way… we were so proud of our selves … from there we drove back back up to the little rivers that run into the cook inlet … we went down to the beach once and saw a huge front end loader drive into the surf with a boat trailer and load the boat and pull the boated trailer back to shore out of the surf … he also launched a couple of boats the same way … these are ... read more

Shelby finally went to the emergency room and the doctor prescribed some antibiotics and wanted him to stay in the area for a couple of days. He and Leta wanted us to go ahead with our plans of going to Seward today, so we pulled out early for Stoney Creek RV Park just a couple of miles north of town. After getting set up we walked down to the creek, and had a couple of eagles fly around the campground. of course we left the camera in the RV. Decided to eat out tonight, and the campground suggested Thorn's Bar and Grill for the best fried halibut in the area. Turns out they were right and we all had a very nice meal. We had all the makings for smores except dry wood. It was ... read more

August 18th, Wed Looking out the airplane window, all I saw was beauty; so I was already in high anticipation of beauty sensory overload! The city of Anchorage then was a huge disappointment since it looked like any city in the U.S, Walmart and all. We headed for Abbey’s home in Seward and left Anchorage city limits, I got excited - Yes, I’m definitely in Alaska! Beautiful. It reminded me of the day after my cataract operation, the bandage came off and I saw glorious color, never realizing how my cataract had gradually dulled my vision. In the same way, the mountains I look at every day in California are wonderful, but these mountains seem clocked in finer greens, with gorgeous blue tinted glaciers and an exciting blue sky with fat white clouds. No smog! As ... read more