Seward
Travel Blogs from Seward, United States
Departure time
... train. Luckily the train was catered, so we had some Mosquitoes (Vodka cocktails) and a salmon chowder. When we (finally) arrived in Seward, our ship was waiting for us. The train stopped right at the terminal, basically the only thing in town. We got ...
Changes in lattitude
... the first one in four years. The reason for this trip was for a couple of weddings. Two friends from college in the States ('soccer' teammates Jeff Sack and Alex Czopp for those of you that know them), thoughtfully planned their weddings two days apart in ...
Travel to Seward
Alex: Travelled to Seward (pronounced SOO-ard) today. Stunning journey, I saw a bald eagle. Seward is nice - a bit like Scarbough - with Fish and Chip shops on the front. The only real difference is the HUGE cruise ship in the port and the Mountains on ...
Kenai Fjords National Park Cruise
Alex: Seward is just on the edge of the Kenai Fjords National Park and the thing to do is go in a cruise of the park. Went out and saw Sea Otters, Humpback Whales, A black bear swimming (very exciting and quite unusual to see it was a couple of miles from ...
Few Days in Seward
... Center and spent a good 3 hrs walking around checking everything out. The Sealife Center is a must for anyone going to Seward, extremely informative and enjoyable. After we finished with the Sealife Center, we went and checked in to the Seward Marina ...
Keeping resurrection at bay
... Alaskan day cruise at Resurrection Bay. Our adventure started the day before as we explored the city of Seward, enjoying wonderful seafood, walking along the docks, visiting the Alaska Sea Life Center and applying the ...
Turnagain Arm
... did see a pretty cool glacier called Explorer glacier. After this beautiful trip, albeit in the rain, we arrived at Alaska Creekside Cabins in Seward, and it is such a cool place. We have the Spruce Cabin, and we love it. It is cute and clean and comfy ...
Oh, boy, I can't wait shower and do laundry!!!!
So, after we got back to the spit, we hopped in the car and drove to Seward. Along the way we stopped and watched people fishing for salmon and met a couple of locals who suggested we go up the road a little to Russian River Camp site to be ...
Stoney Creek RV Park
The road to Seward was along Cooke bay which may be beautiful if the fog would lift, but we did look for whales in the bay with no luck. along the way we stopped at a wildlife preserve. The RV Park is surrounded by mountains with snow on the tops (cool). ...
Holiday in Seward and Homer
... crabs from developing the behaviors/metabolism that they need to survive in the open sea. The saddest thing I've learned about Seward is the devastation the town's fisheries suffered in result of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. I guess the supreme ...
I have found a new challenge - who else is in???
... I had to leave by 3am for Anchorage to catch my flight) So, what do to on the 4th of July in Seward - the Mount Marathon - Alaska's Great Footrace, this year was the 82nd running of the race which takes runners up 3, 022 feet into the ...
2. South Side of the Sky
So the flight is scheduled for eighteen hours and change total, fifteen from LAX to Taipei (TPE) and another three and a half from TPE to Bangkok (BKK) after a two-hour plane change and layover. Two hours is likely too short to be looking for the kind of ...
Drive to Seward
... and rough kind. I think in order to survive here they must have adapted and became the more wilderness type of people. Seward is a small harbour town with lots if fishing boats and ofcourse fresh fish which most of the local restaurants serve straight ...
Alaska Day 4 - Seward Wildlife & Glacier Cruise
... Never fear – we took pictures. Trip info and segue……..If you are interested, we started the tour at the Seward Harbor and headed out into Resurrection Bay, past Thumb Cove, into Humpy Cove (I did NOT name it), through the Eldorado ...
Alaska - Day 3 Talkeetna to Seward
... , while our mom and dad stayed to break down “camp.” We were going to take the Turnagain Arm and the Seward highway to Seward, and had several spots along the way to stop. Shortly into the trek, we realized that I did not even come ...
Cooper Landing to Seward
Drove the scenic highway to Seward, which is full of incredible views! ...
The Cruise and Calving Glaciers - Day 3
... really happy to have her along. We staked out our place at the front of the boat and away we went. The cruise departs Seward and heads through Resurrection Bay, around Aialik Cape, past Three Hole Bay and into the Holgate Arm. At the top of the ...
Prince William Sound
... . What a magnificent animal! Luke did not look at the whales, he just wanted the captain to stop chasing whales and get back to Seward. On the way back the crew baked chocolate chip cookies. Val says that they were delicious. It seemed a waste to her that ...
Sealife Acquarium and Exit Glacier
July 26, 2009 Dave and Val were up early. Kym and Luke are still on Michigan time so they were at the door before Val was out of her pajamas. Val made a pot of coffee, but the group decided to leave before she got to drink any because they were not sure ...
The Best Way to See Kenai Fjords National Park
... . The Harding icefield (over 700 square miles) caps the Kenai Mountains and is the largest icefield completely within the United States. Exiting the bay through the Harding Gateway, we saw many fishing boats trying to catch the silver salmon ...
Bergy bits and Harbor Seals in Seward
... we trekked to get a taxi and head to Liquid Adventures - time check: 7:15 AM. Our cab driver was a lifelong citizen of Seward and lives there today with no running water in his house. He talked about poaching salmon from the stream near the fish hatchery ...
Day 5: A near-death experience OR Ice, Ice, Baby!
... some good because she came up with a GREAT idea! Since we missed our flightseeing tour in Talkeetna, she checked out Seward, which has helicopter flightseeing tours. Mom and dad were interested, but declined. I hoped this wasn’t a ...
Seward - July 6-9
... be enough salmon in future years. A fish company was here harvesting salmon and sold each fish for $5. Drove up the Seward hwy to Moose Pass. Took lots of pictures of the Chugach mountain range, Lily Pond Lake, Kenai Lake, and ...
Our roadtrip to Seward, AK
... small stores along this one street town. We encountered a very nice shop keeper, originally from North Dakota, recently transplanted to Seward last year. She is a high school teacher here in Seward for the past year. She said it snowed ...
Awesome Seward area!
... at least not in Alaska. That does NOT seem fair! We had a nice, but pricey, dinner at Ray's Waterfront Restaurant in Seward. Ray's is extremely popular and we had a long wait to be seated. The Seward community is rather crazy on the ...
Sea Life Center and Whale Cruise in Seward
So we started today heading down the road to the Alaska Sea Life Center, a working research center with a medium sized aquarium/ zoo. It was pretty interesting, you could see stellar sea lions, harbor seals, all sors of fishes, and even touch some other ...
Day 9: Ferry to Whittier, Portage Glacier & Seward
... , not needing to look for it, they can't go back to wilderness. After visiting the conservation center, we headed south towards Seward, where we chose to stay at the Alaska Paddle Inn, located at Lowell Point, about 3 miles south of downtown (meaning ...
Seward, Alaska, United States
Monday, August 10 - Seward, Alaska, United States - Day 2 of 3 Happy Birthday, Deana! Our day started with a bus tour provided by Trails North. The bus driver, Whitey Van Deusen, owner of Trails North, took us on an informal tour of Seward and then ...
Seward, Alaska, United States
Tuesday, August 11 - Seward, Alaska - Day 3 of 3 On this cool morning, we carpooled to the SeaLife Center, Alaska’s only public aquarium and ocean wildlife rescue center, located on the shores of Resurrection Bay. The SeaLife Center studies ...


