Tuesday July 12

Kenai Princess RV Park. 8:50AM. 56°F

Raining

Today we're heading to Seward and the

Major Marine Tours. We have tickets for the 6-hour Holgate Glacier Tour.

At 11 AM, we pull away from the pier and head to sea. It's too bad it's rainy and overcast because we can't see the mountains that surround Seward. We spot a few sea otters but no whales or orcas on the way out. 

The Holgate Glacier reaches the salt water and calves ice into the fjord.

The ice sheet up the side of the mountain is part of the Holgate Glacier. 

For reference we're on the Holgate Arm of the Aialik Bay of the Gulf of Alaska. . The coast here is very rugged with no beaches. Just ocean and quickly rising rock. The Holgate Arm is about 1,000 ft.

There's a river flowing out from under the right cave. This where all the good rocks are 🤣

After leaving the Glacier we go in search of wild life. The first is a colony of Sea Lions.

We did spot a couple humpback whales but I did get them on my phone.

There were also puffins all around but nothing close enough to get a decent photo.

Even though the weather didn't cooperate we had a great day.

When we returned to Seward  we stopped at the fishing pier and took a few photos of the catch.

This last photo is a halibut. At $16/lbs that's a valuable fish (that cart is about

5 ft long and 3 ft wide).

We had dinner at the Chinook Restaurant right at the pier. King Crab came in two sizes 1 lb (including shell) $90. and 1 1/2 lbs $130. We had fish and chips (halibut).