Seward - Day 2:

Day 2, we woke to a steady rain and wind. Good thing Nancy talked us into hiking the Glacier yesterday. Today we planned to visit the Alaska Sea Life Center. The Sea Life Center is a beautiful facility overlooking Resurrection Bay. The facility is primarily a research center but is home to a number of locally represented species of fish and mammals. We spent a couple of hours exploring and then headed for lunch. The restaurant overlooked the Seward Boat Harbor and we watched a active Sea Otter having lunch at the same time. You can see from the photos, he was having a great time.

The remaining photos are a sampling of the local flowers and animals we saw at the sea life center. The Puffin was one of Nancy's favorites.

Weekend Road Trip:

Well, actually the weekend ended up being Monday/Tuesday. Anyway, we took a couple of days for a trip through the Kenai Peninsula to Seward, AK. Our main goal was to look for bears, hike to a glacier and visit the Alaska Sea Life Center.

The weather was overcast but the rail held off for the first day. After a beautiful drive (no bears) we arrived in Seward. Quick stop for lunch and we were off to Exit Glacier. The walk from the visitors center to the glacier is about a mile. Mom did pretty well but as you can see from the photos, we finally wore her down. The trail has some pretty good hills and loose rocks to navigate. All-in-all, she did pretty good. Hope you enjoy the photos. More to follow for day two.