River Valley Cabins
Travel Blogs from Seward
Lions(sea), otters and whales oh my!
... go well for everyone on board, but no worries we’re all good). The rush turns out to be worth it as we see a pod of orcas…oh, wait 2 pods of orcas. INCREDIBLE! Cameras are snapping everywhere! Even catch them getting busy… oops sorry guys. Now we pull up to the Glacier… breath taking… speechless… words just won’t do it justice. Not sure even the pics will.. but we did our best to ...
Seward
Just landed in Seward. the ride down was only three ours but it was raining in the low 40's and VERY windy. We all arrived in Seward a little chilly. We checked into the Moby Dick hostel and are starting to warm up. Hopefully the rain will lift and we can go out for a fun walk. Update: on day two in Seward we took a harbor tour and saw wales, porpoises, seals, etc. today we are going to walk on a glacier on our way out of ...
Valdez to Seward - via the Alaska State Ferry
... All finished off with a meal at "The Salmon Bake", a restaurant next door to my lodge - which announces itself with "Cheap Beer and Lousy Food". My verdict would be "normally-priced beer, acceptable food, and fairly poor service" - unless you are one of the owner's business mates hogging the centre table and being very loud about how you're going to have all the most expensive items on the menu and the priciest bottles of wine, in which case you get special attention. Ah well.
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Resurrection Bay can be a rainy and rockin' place!
... of a sudden, the captain told us that a breaching humpback was in sight. We rushed outside and waited. There it was! It was jumping in and out of the water, so close to us! We could not believe it. Julie took a video with the waterproof camera, since it was raining so hard. The whale gave us quite a show. We will never forget it!
Shortly after the whale experience, the captain told us that we had to head back to Seward, ...
The fishing port of Alaska
... side walk stopping to have a nose at someones pick up camper on the way. We then drove down to Lowell Point to see if Paul and Ana were around, but we couldn't find them so we drove back to the hostel. As we had to take the car back in the morning, we emptied out the car and gave it a quick clean up ready for the morning. We then caught up with email and a bit of surfing the net and then had a bacon and egg sandwich for a late dinner. After dinner we then showered and got off to bed.
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