Blogs from Seward, Alaska, United States, North America - page 8

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

58 degrees Headed to Seward, AK. Stopped at Fred Meyers - affiliated with Krogers. Staying at Seward City campground - $15.00 per night. Jack cooking halibut tonight. Really pretty views of the mountains.... read more

Geo: 60.1042, -149.442Saturday, 7/31/2010 – The weather so far had been very nice. A little overcast from time to time but no rain. That changed this morning. Foggy and misty rain for most of the day. We were up early and availed ourselves of the B&B's breakfast. Pretty standard free breakfast offered by most chain motels these days but not terrible – cold cereal, bagels w/cream cheese, etc., boiled eggs, fruit, etc. We were catching the ferry from Valdez to Whittier that left at 8:00 AM. We got in line to board the ferry at 7:00 and were loaded promptly. Ferry was not crowded at all which was a bit surprising to us. We had hoped to see some marine life and get a view of Columbia Glacier from the ferry, but that was not to ... read more

Seward was awesome! It’s a really nice town. Seward is pretty small but it is right next to the ocean which is pretty cool. We stayed at a RV park in a little place called Miller’s Landing. The first night we were there we went deep sea fishing for salmon and other fish. We went from 5 to 9pm. The weird part was that only one person caught a salmon. Everyone else caught black bass and snappers. I caught two black bass. Blaze also caught two black bass and dad caught three black bass. I sure hope black bass taste good because first of all, they were really heavy and hard to bring up because they were huge fish and we caught them at like three hundred feet down in the water. Second of all, I ... read more

We arrived yesterday to Seward which is on the Kenai Peninsula. It must be the most beautiful place in the world; mountains everywhere, glaciers, waterfalls, Resurrection Bay, creeks, wildlife, spruce trees. It is like combining the best of Oregon and Colorado and adding steroids. Jaden and I challenged ourselves with a four hour sea kayak tour from 7-11 pm while Kevin, Dax and Blaze went on a deep sea fishing trip. We had a beautiful, yet strenuous paddle out to Bridal Veil Falls. We saw many sea otters, some about 25 yards away. Our campground is on the beach front with magnificent views. ... read more