Our 2011 Alaskan Adventure: Day 46 Seward

Rainy, overcast, crappy day in Seward. Had to reschedule the dog sled on the glacier. Went to the Alaska Sealife Center instead.

There are 5 different types of salmon.

They all have different seasons and different limits.

And you better know which is which and when!

Resurrection Bay.

Octapuss on the glass.

And they had some fish.

Lon was really upset......He had to pay for the coffee, and no dounuts.

He showed them his badge, but they wanted to see his gun.

He had to pay.

Then a walk through downtown Seward.

AK Nellie's got our lunch money.

Real good burgers and Turkey/Bacon Melt.

So-so halibit sandwich.

and then?

Well we'd already eaten by the time we found this place.

They had indoor seating as well.

Jerry, Gail and Heidi went back to the coach and took a nap. Funny how when you get up at 5 am and nap everyday from 2 pm til 5 pm it screws up your sleep cycle. Hmm.... Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2.

Anyway, whilst the Cockerell's were continuing to screw up their sleep cycle the Britton's went to Exit Glacier. In the spring of 1968, the first documented mountaineering party succeeded in crossing the Harding Icefield. Ten people were involved in the crossing, which went from Chernof Glacier east to Resurrection Glacier (Later renamed Exit as the newspaper reported that the group would be descending the "Exit Glacier"). Exit Glacier is especially notable for being a drive up glacier (similar to the Mendenhall Glacier of Juneau).

A spur road of the Seward Highway takes visitors to the only road accessbile portion of the Kenai Fjords National Park and a number of hiking trails that take visitors to the terminus of the glacier or even up to the Harding Icefield itself.

Although one of the Harding Icefield's smaller glaciers, because of its easy accessibility and abundant hiking trails around and above the glacier, the Exit Glacier is one of the most visited glaciers in Alaska. Exit Glacier is open year-round. Upon the arrival of snow, usually in mid-November, the road is closed to cars but open to a wide-range of winter recreation –from snow machines to dogsleds and cross-country skiers.

It was about a mile hike up from the parking lot to the base of the Glacier.

Pam thought she saw a bear.

Along the way, even on the drive in, were signs with years on them like, 1819, 1889, 1951, etc. that were supposed to be where the glacier base used to be. Clearly, the glacier has been shrinking and quite possibly someday it'll just be an ice cube that someone is visiting.

But the Leftist, Commie, Pinko, Liberal, Al Gore, The Sky is Falling, help me Mr. Obama, Global Warming nuts would have you thinking that we're causing them to shrink. C'mon people they been shrinking since 1819, 100 years before the first Model A!!!! Can you say "climate is cyclical"??