Kenai Peninsula

We drove to Seward, Wednesday, September 6, for a kayak trip. It is a beautiful 125-mile drive, even in the wind and the rain, and we arrived to find our trip had been cancelled because of the wind and the rain. We stopped in at Resurrect Art Coffee House, an old church filled with cool local art and ambiance and then drove back to Anchorage.

I had been running a high fever and although it had dropped some, I was probably not going to go kayaking anyway but was sorry for Sydney and David who would no doubt have enjoyed it.

We drove to Seward again on Thursday and enjoyed the Alaska SeaLife Center. Many of the inhabitants are rescues. A sea lion was making a loud ruckus and throwing himself against the door out of his very large and quite nice space. It is mating season, the staff had decided not to breed sea lions this year, and he is apparently immensely dissatisfied with that decision.

Friday, we drove up to Exit Glacier and then took an excursion boat to the Kenai Fjords. 

I wanted to do this because I wanted to see a fjord. These fjords seemed wider and not as deep as the pictures of the Scandinavian fjords. We saw Stellar sea lions sleeping on rocks. A baleen whale came partially out of the water very close to our boat and several humpbacks showed their tails. We lingered near the Holgate Glacier long enough for several large crashes of ice into water, during which they played music from The Titanic.

When we docked back in Seward, a cute sea otter rolled around in the marina, chewing on its tail and looking playful.

We are back in Anchorage for the weekend, the three friends are arriving, and David plans to drive us to the ferry in Whittier on Monday. Thanks to David for all the pictures for this entry.