After arriving to Seward the night before and deciding we were going to be lazy and get something to eat from the local Safeway we also promptly to decided to camp by the ocean and by camping I mean sleep in my car. We were both to tired to set up a tent too lazy to cook and too cold to sleep outside. I was the driver so lucky me I got the drivers seat with a wheel between my legs and we both could not leans back too far. If the people at the camp ground didn’t already think we were weird after moving the car around a bunch of times, B taking pictures of the dumpsters, and me honking the horn with my ass while trying to get situated, they most certainly did when I then somehow set off the car alarm. Plus we never got out of our car.
We had a big day planned tomorrow though. What do you think of when you think Alaska? I think dog sledding. I really wanted to do it when we started planning this trip then realized there was gonna be no snow. But thankfully they do summer training on wheeled carts! So we got up Drove to Seavy’s Idiarod Sled dog tours. We got to ride in the car, play with husky puppies and learn about the famous Iditarod race. The Seavy’s happen to be a big part of it and are keeping the Tradition in the family. Mitch Seavy won it in 2004 and his sons are following suit. One of them placed first in a race from Fairbanks to Whitehorse and two weeks later came in 4th in the Iditarod and he was only around 15. Pretty impressive.
I also really wanted to take one of the boat tours through the Kenai fjords. I’m not sure B really wanted to go but she did. It started off slow but we were blessed on this trip. Sealions abound, puffins (which are so cute), dall’s porpoises riding the wake at the bow of the boat, mountain gaits and their babies on the rocks, bald eagles, and the peste de risistance HUMPBACKS WHALES! And not just like 1 or 2 swimming past more like 4 bubble netting fish and feeding. They rarely see that on these tours. We kept seeing more about 8 or 9 in total. The coolest one by far however was the one in front of Bear Glacier that kept slaping his pectoral fins around and amazing breached right infront of the glacier. The coolest part I got pictures of it. I had my camera in the right place at the right time and I saw breaking of the surface and just kept clicking the button! I was so happy. Little kid in a candy store. Just like the San Juan Island orcas. B was quite excited herself she was glad she went turns out she really was just tired (go figure we slept in the car) and cold (understandable it was freezing. But if you know me I wasn’t in the cabin I was on the deck directly at the front of the boat waiting for the magic to happen. IT DID! Fantabouls Day. It couldn’t get much better.
But it did we were told by Justin our sled dog tour guide from Duluth Minnesota to go see the salmon. We were like “what?”. Well the salmon as some of you may know or may not know swim up river to spawn in the summer and they were side to side thick in bear creek jumping and all. I decided to explore across the creek walked across a down tree well when I crossed back over I fell into bear creek. B told me I wasn’t very graceful. Well no shit when you fall you are usually not graceful. Soaking wet and could bruised shin and scraped up stomach I was changing my clothes on the side of the road. The good news is the camera survived and I didn’t pee my pants. I was so cold and we I wasn’t sure if I could hold it and let me tell you I w/as tempted to just pee my already wet clothes but decided better of it since those dirty clothes hang out in our car.
Then finally B qued up “on the road again” a little late being that it was 6pm but that’s really when we started to be on the road again. We drove for about 4 hours to get a head start on the 13 hr hike from Seward to Haines. We passed Eagle River , Alaska and towns time has seemed to have forgotten (there have been a lot of them on the trip). When we came to the Manuluska Glacier and saw they also had a campground we decided to bed down. Before we did that though B took some cool pics and I waited in the car behind a man in a minivan with 2 sons and a bumper sticker on the back that read “feel UR boobies” classy (I’m sure it was for breast cancer awareness but still. The best part he was drinking a beer and smoking a cigarette out of his van, got back in with both in hand and drove off. Father of the year I tell ya. Oh and when I said bed down I meant slept in the car again…B Take it away…
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