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Seward and Kenai Fjords National Park
After getting off the ferry in Whittier, we drove south toward Valdez, through more beautiful countryside, stopping in Moose Pass to hike a mile and a half up a mountain to an Apline lake, passing people who were fishing at the lake, and a couple of hunters, and eating watermelon berries as we went along.
After a long hike we headed toward …
Left, Right, Left Right...
... for our kayaking and hiking adventure. Kayaking is the first leg of our adventure. We're over to the kayak shack to gear up for the day. A lovely ensemble of life jacket and kayak skirts, with oars in hand we are off to the beach for a quick lesson prior to launching. Then off we go.... it's a race to see who can steer straight...(let's just say Kerri didn't get the gold). Five miles and several turns later we approach the remote beach where Caine's Head trail head ...
Can Alaska handle this many Weslowski's?
... the parents" and off we go to the "Moose's Tooth" for lunch. http://moosestooth.net/ We had about a fifteen minute wait and then ordered, in the meantime, LJ got a call from Bank of America about his debit card being compromised. After delays, being on hold, being disconnted while being transferred and an all around fun time, he is able to keep them from cancelling our cards while we are on vacation and hopefully all ...
Bearfooting..
... cruise liner in the harbour. Seward is the start point of the famous annual Iditerod Dog Sled Race to Nome - about 900 miles away!
Stuart, Andy's brother from San Diego, is going to join us with his family on the 27th so we look forward to that. He is hiring an RV in Anchorage. Think that they will enjoy Seward, so will go back there.
Left Seward today and have ended up at a little campsite near Soldotna, looking at 2 active volcanos - Redoubt and ...
Resurrection Bay can be a rainy and rockin' place!
... start to smell and taste bad, so much so that bears don't even go after that by a certain point. Next, we visited the salmon exhibit. We saw many salmon and pictures of the changes they undergo. It is hard to believe that they go back upstream to the creek where they were born. How incredible!
Paul posed for some underwater pictures with Woody the Steller Sea Lion. We saw a snoozing giant octopus in a tank. We laughed ...
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