Souvenirs From The Road: How About a Little Seward Time?

Day 72 - July 12 I find myself with the realization that our reservation at Millers Landing start tomorrow and not today. So we decide to head to the city park and try for one of the few bay front electric sites and SCORE! We got one! And it is next to our new friends Mike and Ro from Florida that we saw at Eklutna, then visited with last night at Trail Lake. Fun! Well, we needed to do the laundry and grocery thing. Had some not so good Chinese food. But - the park is great to people watch in! It's actually pretty. We have a sea otter for entertainment. All in all, another great day!

View from our campsite

Day 73 - July 13 Being centrally located at the city park allows you to walk easily everywhere. We walked to the Kenai Fjords National Park - got the passport stamped. Then feeling hungry, went to the Bakery at the Harbor for a tasty brunch! Very generous portions. The harbor is very picturesque. Came back and changed to shorts - it is 75 unbelievable degrees! Drove out to Exit Glacier for a hike. They have a great Nature Center here. The Glacier View trail is very easy. Went on up the Edge of the Glacier trail. Wow has this thing receded since we were last here in 2004. Wish I had that picture digitized of me standing by it. What makes this park unique is that you can see where the glaciers have been, retreated and clearly see where the timeline of the forest growth is. It is constantly changing!

We enjoyed dinner with all the Gregureks today, who had gone on a fishing charter (except Donna and grandkids). And then finally....our first thunderstorm since we left Texas May 1!

Seward Harbor

It's a sea otter if you look closely.

We drove on a road opposite Seward. Just look at all those RV's at the city park in Seward!

One of the first views of Exit Glacier.

Exit Glacier

I have a picture of me in a scrapbook from 2004 and I am dwarfed by the glacier. It has receded.

Music in the park.

Everyone needs to tour the SeaLife Center here.

Love the colors of glaciers!

Day 74 - July 14 Woohoo! Our first fishing charter! And man - is it some nasty weather! But we are prepared. We don our rain boots and rain coats. Early start. Boat leaves at 7:30 at Millers Landing. There's a total of 5 of us fishing, plus the captain and the first mate. We had a great time! We fished silver salmon. Ron caught his limit of 6, I caught 4. We then head for halibut. The water is really rough. I am the only one that catches one. Wasn't that big. It is a LOT OF WORK pulling it in though. Fun! Then we got a lot of rock fish. We head back into the bay looking for more salmon. There are lots of other boats in the area, escaping the weather. But so cool! Two hump back whales are feeding right by us. So beautiful to watch them. What a "souvenir" that was! I didn't drink but a few sips of water today as I was a little leery of the bathroom situation on the boat - LOL! Came in, took the fish to the processor and wow was that an eye opener for the shipping costs back home! We then went to dinner at "Thorn's" and had a bucket of butts (halibut that is). Very good. We are really exhausted though.