Seward Holiday

We returned from the Kenai Fjords fishing trip to stay in Seward over the 4th of  July and go fishing on a party boat.  Apparently everyone from Anchorage makes this same trek to the Kenai Peninsula over the holiday and the town in packed.  No room at any campgrounds, so we stayed here...

Ditch Hotel

It was common practice, we followed the lead of others.  The price was right, too.  Since the town was packed, w made our own restaurant which served halibut for every meal the week we stayed there.

Livin' It

After fishing, we went for a walk in the woods.  We saw a glacier, and the mixing of glacial run off with stream/rain water run off.  Neat stuff.  We drank some glacial water, and let me tell you the marketing strategies of water bottle companies is pretty good.  Iit doesn't taste as well as they'd lead you to believe.

And then this.  

Maybe we should haveve brought the shotgun with.

Halibut

halibut is the best tasting fish ever

Seward to the Kenai Fjords

We ride two up for the last 100 curvy miles to Seward AK with some "turn at the big tree, just after the waterfall" directions to get to the campsite.  We roll into camp @ 2am, after being up for 24 hours for the second time in 3 days.  Somehow we find camp and get about 4 hours of sleep.  Wake at 6, shower & eat, and get stuff down to the water taxi by 8am.

next 4 days

water taxi

Miraculously, we made it.  1,000 miles in 60 hours.  8 hours of sleep, gas flavored beans burritos and coffee. Our reward is relaxing on the 2 hour boat ride to our campsite and viewing the wildlife along the way, such as Dall's porpoise, who ride the pressure wave off the front of the water taxi.  Pretty neat.

This is where we will be spending the next few days.  Not too shabby.

Time to set up camp and take a nap before heading out in the kayaks to find some halibut.

Thanks to Mama Z we ate well

best dehydrated pasta sauce ever.

With full bellies, we rode towards Hyder, AK.  On the way, we drove past no less than seven black bears, one grizzly bear and our first glacier.  People sometimes ask what is the difference between the bears, I can assure you when you see a Grizzly bear, you will know the difference.  How fitting this is called Bear Glacier

Bear Glacier

Hyder, AK

Hyder, AK is a crazy boom/bust mining town.  There is no pavement, no law enforcement or fire fighters, no border guards, a huge dump near the intersection of the two main streets, ridiculously talented sculpture artists and the best fish bus ever.

On the Road

Leaving Glacier National Park ,USA

...and Matt's off!

Harpoon

They let us into Canada, eh? Glacier National Park in BC, it was a beautiful place to run out of gas.  By the time we got to town it was dark, so we went to the first place we saw.  Some un-kindly RVer-park propertier wanted to charge us $80 to tent camp for one night, I don't think they wanted scumbuckets there.