Kenai Fjords Boat Cruise

In Seward we were camped at the City's Resurrection Park right on Resurrection Bay. The view was spectacular.

We went into town about 10:30 to look around and wait to get on a boat for a tour of the Kenai Fjords. This is the middle of the the town shopping area.

This was a cute wooden seal sculpture.

There was also a cute wooden bear sculpture

and a whale sculpture placed around the area.

We finally boarded the boat and set out in Resurrection Bay. We saw this cute Sea Otter playing around. It was an overcast day so we didn't get very good pictures.

He was eating something.

These are some crazy kayaks. I say crazy mainly because it was not a very nice day.

If you look closely you can make out a Lion's Main Jelly Fish in the water.

We saw this beautiful waterfall on the way.

This rock was covered in sea gulls.

And this rock was covered in sea lions.

If you look really carefully you can see three puffins in the lower part of the pictures.

Here is a view of our coaches at Resurrection Park from the boat,

Coming back in to dock we saw this eagle sitting on top of one of the sailboat masts.

It was a disappointing day as we were unable to see what we saw more clearly and because we were unable to see Bear Glacier when we got in front of it. But, again, we can't control the weather.

Off to Seward

We are leaving Anchorage to go to the Kenai Peninsula. We will travel to three different cities there beginning with Seward today.



We are driving down the same highway that we went on earlier this week when we went to Portage Glacier. This time it is a little less cloudy so I took pictures again. This is another view of Turnagain Arm.

Wayne is still doing the driving even though I have offered to relieve him.

We stopped at beautiful valley where we were greeted with three bagpipers and a cartoon character. As you can tell it is misting.

There was a group doing something with dogs further down in the valley. We couldn't tell exactly what they were doing.

There was fireweed growing up close to the parking lot and you can see the unusual terrain.

Here is Wayne and Chuck with Bear walking from our row of RVs.

Everyone let their dogs out to run. They were good and didn't bother the dogs further down the valley.

As we got further down the road we were able to see this glacier

and more beautiful mountains.

This looks like it may be the Kenai Mountains and part of the Harding Ice Field.

We arrived in Seward early in the afternoon.

Sourdough Mining Company

Tonight the group went to the Sourdough Mining Company for dinner. Wayne is getting the bug that has been going around and so he didn't go. This place serves family style. There was salmon, steak, and chicken along with slaw, hush puppies, etc.

Then just as we got full we were told there was an ice cream sundae bar.

After dinner we waddled over to their Wild Berry Theatre to see a movie about Alaska and the wildlife. It was very good.

They had this huge stone Inuit.

The theatre was made to look like an old mine.

After the movie we went over to the gift shop where we saw their 11 foot high chocolate waterfall. Some of our group threatened to put their mouths under the flow but no one did.

Four teddy bears sitting on a bench.

The gift shop sold lots of products made from the wild berries of Alaska.

It was a fun evening.

Tour of Anchorage

This morning we went on a city tour of Anchorage. We went to Old Towne, Black Elk Crafts, Alaska Fur Exchange, Ulu Factory, Float Plane Harbor, we got to see an urban moose up real close. Unfortunately we rode in one of the vans and I didn't have a window seat so no pictures.

In the afternoon we carpooled along Turnagain Arm. This is an area where beluga whales come in but we didn't see any.

We drove to the Indian Valley Meats store. They had some fowl running around and some caged. This appears to be some sort of a pheasant.

They also had some nice metal gates.

They also had these two totems and a wooden statue of a salmon fisherman.

This peacock was just wandering around the grounds with its friend the chicken.

This is what they call combat fishing on Ship Creek.

We went to the Portage Glacier National Park headquarters and saw a film on the glacier. At the end of the show they open the curtains and you are supposed to be able to see the glacier. Only problem was that is was too overcast to see it.

Our next stop was the Wild Animal Park that has animals that are being rehabilitated. Here we saw moose,

musk ox,

black bears,

buffalo,

and elk. We also saw a grizzly but no picture.

We went inside an ice cream/gift shop and they had this amazing horn chandelier.

When we came out I found this cage with a cute fox.

On the way back, Wayne and I and Ed and Linda stopped at the parking lot for Ship Creek so we could see the combat fishing better. It always intrigues me when you can see the lined where they drilled to put the dynamite to blast off part of a mountain.

There is a pedestrian bridge across ship creek where you can stand to watch the fishing.

If you look carefully you can see a fish jumping in the water.

All in all it was an interesting day.