Seward, United States Travel Blogs

Changes in lattitude
Jun 28, 2004 (15 photos)

... 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 the ...

Travel to Seward
Jun 16, 2006 (7 photos)

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 all ...

Kenai Fjords National Park Cruise
Jun 17, 2006 (12 photos)

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 ...

No WiFi here, and so much to tell
Jul 4, 2009 (25 photos)

July 4.  The drive from Anchorage to Seward is only about 170 miles, but there is much to see along the way.  Turnagain Arm is very scenic, but there was significant haze today, even in the early to mid morning.  Stopped several times ...

Few Days in Seward
Mar 7, 2005 (14 photos)

... 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 Motel, my ...

Turnagain Arm
Jul 25, 2009 (8 photos)

... 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 and ...

Oh, boy, I can't wait shower and do laundry!!!!
Jul 2, 2009

   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
Aug 5, 2008 (21 photos)

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). I ...

Holiday in Seward and Homer
Jul 5, 2008 (33 photos)

... 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 court ...

I have found a new challenge - who else is in???
Jul 3, 2009

... 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 Mountain ...

Red Deer to Alaska 03
Sep 3, 2003 (5 photos)

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2. South Side of the Sky
Nov 14, 2008 (7 photos)

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
May 31, 2008 (3 photos)

... 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 of ...

Alaska Family Activities
Feb 14, 2008

... whales, gray wolves, hunchback whales, lynx, moose and grizzly bears. 4-Hiking Alaska has some of the most graphic sceneries in the United States. If you're planning to take your family trip to Alaska in the summer, be sure to take the time to go ...

Cooper Landing to Seward
Jul 5, 2009 (1 photos)

Drove the scenic highway to Seward, which is full of incredible views!

The Cruise and Calving Glaciers - Day 3
Aug 22, 2009 (64 photos)

... 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
Aug 1, 2009 (7 photos)

... . 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
Jul 26, 2009 (8 photos)

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 ...

Bergy bits and Harbor Seals in Seward
May 29, 2009 (24 photos)

... 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 ...

Seward - July 6-9
Jul 6, 2009 (31 photos)

... 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
Aug 20, 2008 (9 photos)

... 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 so ...

Sea Life Center and Whale Cruise in Seward
Mar 29, 2008 (9 photos)

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
Aug 1, 2008 (3 photos)

... , 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 you ...

Anchorage to Seward - The Kenai Peninsula - P. 12
Sep 14, 2007 (174 photos)

... in not mentioning that the name Seward is perhaps the most renowned name in the state. It was Secretary of State William Seward who negotiated with Russia in 1867 for the purchase of the Russian territory which included a large part of what is now ...

Seward, Alaska, United States
Aug 10, 2009 (79 photos)

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
Aug 11, 2009 (53 photos)

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 the ...

Anchorage to Seward, and the Wildlife Preserve
Mar 28, 2008 (16 photos)

So we headed toward Seward today and our date with the Gray Whales. Along the way we stopped at the Alaska Wildlife Recreation Center to check on the muxk ox, Moose, Brown and Black Bears, and many other Artic animals. We did manage to traverse the whole ...

Seward Boat Tour
Oct 22, 2006 (66 photos)

Hey, Took the second day to drive to Seward, a 3 hour drive, to go on a Kenai Fjords Boat Tour. It was well worth the drive and money it cost. It was absolutely freezing, and the windiest I've ever experienced, (except for the time I blew over in a ...

Worth the drive!
Aug 28, 2005 (34 photos)

... yet. It started along the inlet, where the tide was low and the glacier snow capped mountains were all around us. Seward was equally magnificant, in it's coastal charming way. Sailing, crusiing, fishing boats off all sizes were everywhere, the smell ...

Day 10: Seward and Kenai Fjords
Aug 2, 2008 (8 photos)

Today after a late wake up and after enjoying a great breakfast we prepared out of the groceries left for us in the room, we headed to our first stop for the day: the Alaska Sealife Center. This is an aquarium showing sealife around Alaska, including ...