Today was a highlight of our trip. We took an all day cruise in the Kenai Fiords National Park. The park is immense and contains many glaciers fed by the Harding Icefields. Our town of Seward is just one of the fiords and is the northernmost port in Alaska that does not freeze over making it an important place for shipping. Cruise ships come in here also and Jeff and I had disembarked here on our Alaska cruise in 1996.
Our catamaran was very comfortable and we sat on the lowest deck, inside at comfy chairs and tables. We met an interesting couple from Georgia and spent the day talking and watching the water, ice and sea birds. Being a smallish ship (150 passengers) we were able to get about a quarter mile from one glacier and stayed there a while watching it calve into the sea. The blue color of the ice is amazing and it was cold so I got to wear my thermal underwear, knit hat and gloves.
Later we visited another glacier and chased a pod of Orca Whales. We saw a few otters float by on their backs and lots of seals, puffins and murres playing on the seas. We were served a fish fry lunch on board and stopped at Fox Island for a salmon grill dinner. Just a perfect day except for Jeff being a little queasy with the sea swells.
Arriving back at Seward we saw this comforting sign near our campground and then spied this bald eagle perched in a nearby tree.
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