Aug. 15 & 16, 2010 From our stay in Anchorage, we travel 127 miles to Seward, on the Kenai Peninsula; finally touching the west coast from Resurrection Bay. The drive was truly gorgeous but super wet and rainy, with glacier-capped mountains as we drove parallel to the waters of the Pacific from Turnagain Arm and then the Kenai Lake. Unfortunately our planned camping was hindered with a strong rainstorm; we had to motel it yet again. We also stayed an extra day waiting for the storm to clear out. We were too cheap to take the ferry to see the icebergs and glaciers of the Kenai waters, but we took it easy and strolled the fishing village. My birthday was spent driving through rain, but we also enjoyed an awesome rainy day hiking a 4 mile flooded road, round trip to Exit Glacier and had another grizzly bear siting.
Alaskan Halibut catches of the day, being thrown in the cart!
Salmon from Seward!
View of a typical clouded day in Seward.
Charlie liked this picture of himself posing with the stuffed goat at our motel.
Exit Glacier at Kenai Fjords National Park, driving view.
Another view of Exit Glacier in the center.
Walking to the glacier on the closed road.
We made it to Exit Glacier after 2 miles on a closed road!
Yay!
Exit Glacier turning into a riverbed.
One more view.
Some of the crazy mushrooms we saw on our hike!
Charlie collecting black sand for his friends, Paul & Kat.
Another grizzly siting! A mama and her cubs! (wasn't able to get a good shot of the cubs' faces.)
The mama!
Totally in love with your shot of all the hanging fish with the Santa Clause fisherman peeking in the side!
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