Day 68: Seward

June 21, 2014

It rained all night and continued to rain this morning so we all slept in – well, for us anyway – 0700. It continued to rain all morning. There we a lot of special activities planned all over Alaska as the Summer Solstice is a huge event/party here. However, the rain in our area put a damper on many of the plans.

So after moving and a quick sandwich for lunch we headed into town to the Alaska SeaLife Center – a good thing to do on a rainy day. The center rescues orphaned sea animals as well as performs research and education. There were some very good displays and large aquariums for the various animals such as sea otters, sea lions, harbor seals, and aquatic birds. We really enjoyed the Center and would recommend it to all. BTW – it is in the TourSaver book, so only costs $20.00 admission for the two of us.

Woody the sea lion is 21 years old...

...and he weighs 1,700 pounds

A king eider

Puffin

Puffins and Gull

By then the rain had stopped and we walked around town, visited a few shops, visited Mile 0 of the Iditarod Trail, and then drove out to Lowell Point. We really like Seward.

After that we went to The Salmon Bake Restaurant for an early dinner. We all four had the same – Captain's Platter – which had grilled salmon, halibut nuggets and fried prawns with corn and baked potatoes. Once again, we didn't wait to get a picture before we dove right in. It was all very good in spite of the slogan on their menu!

Thank goodness each couple decided to share a platter because we had ample food. We can highly recommend this restaurant that is on the road to Exit Glacier. The food was cooked perfectly and service was good as well.

Tomorrow we will probably listen to the sermon from last week from our home church via the internet. We haven't found a service that begins before 11:00 here in Seward and we want to be hiking before then.

Thanks for following along with our adventures and we love to read your comments.

For RVers following:
(rant) We are not very happy with the Stoney Creek RV Park here. There are not many choices in Seward with full hookups. We specified full hookups when we reserved our site. However, when we arrived we were given a different site. It did not have sewer connection. After returning to the office we were assigned another site to move to today. Check out time is 12:00 so we waited until about 11:45 for the person to move off our new site. However, after he left and before we could raise the jacks and pull in the slides to move, another RV was in the site. Back to the office and – “Oh, we changed you to another site because those two wanted to be next to each other.” But we could go ahead and move to the other “new” site because “it was not occupied last night so it's empty.” So why weren't we give that site yesterday? And why did we have to waste a morning waiting for someone to leave? Management did not seem the least bit concerned about the mix-up or inconvenience to us. Anyway, if you are coming here, the campground is really OK, (even though the WIFI is too slow to be useable) – just be sure there is no misunderstanding regarding what you want and expect. (end rant)