Day 8 and 9 Seward to Whittier AK then back to Seattle

We stayed the night in Seward and spent day 8 cruising Resurection Bay, then we drove to Portage Glacier and stayed at a campground for the night.. our favorite campground the whole week... Then on day 9 we drove back to Anchorage and flew out the morning of Day 10..



When we got to the harbor to check in for our cruise they told us that because of high seas in the area our cruise was scheduled to go that they had to do a shortened modified cruise, but promised that we'd still see wildlife, so we decided to go anyways.....

Most beautiful boat harbor i've ever seen!! mountains everywhere!! :-)

wow... and pictures don't do a justice!

Connor fell asleep waiting to boad the boat, amazing how they can sleep anywhere and in any position!!.. this looks so uncomfortable to me, but whatever works :-)

At our table, we sat with a very nice couple from California... notice Connor is still asleep!

As we were leaving the harbor we spotted a bald eagle..

Seals sunbathing on the rocks!

Momma and baby mountain goats with an eagle flying by at the same time.. only in Alaska! :-)

sea birds in a little cutout in the rocks above the water..

Bear Glacier from a distance...

Harbor seal.. they are rare to see and very shy so this is the closest picture I could get...

One thing I really hoped to see was whales... we only saw them for a split second .. they were being very shy :-) which is disapointing, but o well. This is Jeremy and Connor as we were "holding our breath" hoping to see a whale... The whales held their breath longer... ha ha bad humor.. sorry....

beautiful scenery we saw on the cruise

When we got back to the harbor there was an otter hanging out waiting for scraps from the fish cleaning station... smart!

This was the view we saw on the way to Whittier... the sun was actually out and it was AMAZING reflecting off the snow peaked mountains!!

WOW.. is all I can say... we sat here for a while :-)

What a beautiful state!!

This is Connor getting a bath in the motorhome that evening.. I wanted a photo to show how the shower was the perfect size for him....... not so much for big people :-) He loved his baths!!

We stayed in an awesome USFS campground in Portage Glacier.. We finally had out own campfire!! (we hung out with a family at theirs earlier in the trip).. We ate enough marshmellows to make us sick :-) it was awesome!

Connor and dad at Connors first campfire!! YEAH

Connor bundled up with mom by the fire :-) It was a little chilly being so close to the glaciers.. :-)

We woke up to POURING rain... nothing like starting and ending the trip with rain.... We were planning on going to Whittier, a town only accessible through a train tunnel, its the only multi use tunnel in the USA (maybe world.. I can't remember) It has a light and changes every 15 minutes to trade with the train.. Because of how nasty the weather was we decided not to go as the town of Whittier is basically a few miles (walk) once through the tunnel. So instead we had a relaxing morning, then slowly made our way to Anchorage to stay the night at the motorhome parking lot as we flew out in the morning....

Connor hanging out in the drivers seat watching the rain ... He did GREAT on his first family vacation!!

On the way to Anchorage we stopped to watch the boer tides come in.... we waited for several hours, only to be disappointed (later realizing we were about 20 miles too far south... bummer! It was cool to see these crazy people getting into the ice cold Alaska water with surf boards though:

Apparently you can surf the boer tides.. im sure its fun, but the cold water is a little too much for me :-)

9 days and over 700 photos later.... we had our first family trip! It was awesome.. The weather was the only disappointing factor, but you have to expect that in Alaska.. We will definately go back, and the motorhome thing worked out as good as we imagined... will most likely do that part again too... Hard to believe it's already over.....Back to reality!