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Anchorage to Seward, and the Wildlife Preserve
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 mile circle in our rear wheel drive car, only getting stuck once. But some quick help from a …
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 critters. Then we headed to the harbour and got on a cruise ship for a four hour whale watching …
Fresh air!!!
We left Anchorage and headed south on the Seward highway, off to see some Alaskan wildlife and rough it in the fresh glacier-skimmed air. We stopped numerous times to take in the beautiful sites on the way. The mountains were mostly covered by snow and there were several bald eagles sitting alongside the rivers. The drive took about 6 hours instead …
Treking from Homer to Seward
... crew (ok cardboard cutouts of the crew), but still an awesome shop, giving Kellei a new catch phrase "Don't make me go Captain on you!". Back on the road, working our way through the many "Sunday drivers". We find a small off the road salmon viewing area. So, we watch fish swim upstream... kind of like watching paint dry.. not a fast process. We did learn that calling "here fishy, fishy" doesn't work the same as 'here ...
Lonely,I'm so lonely ( not really)
... to have some real amenities! Almost had a fight with someone when we voted on then to leave, we were between 3 and 330 so I said 315 and she said no...why more people wanted 330... Ugh typically old lady grump!...NOT in our group...I won we leaving 315! TTYL...stay tuned for the "fish" stories...any typos I'll fix latter remember I'm outside on a bench in the ...