- Anchorage, AK to Seward, AK and return via AK-1 (Seward Highway)
We headed out to Seward today. The highway takes you alongside Turnagain Arm, which is an offshoot of Cook Inlet. Anchorage is at the head of Cook Inlet. Alaska was once known as "Seward's Folly." Turns out Seward was right after all.
Like most North Pacific coastal inlets, clouds are the order of the day. The sky looked like this for pretty much the whole day. It's normal up here.
Logging used to be a big deal in this part of Alaska. It still is, but most of the area along Turnagain Arm is now part of Chugach State Park.
Yep, ground zero for the Iditarod!
Beautiful downtown Seward.
Actually Seward is in a very beautiful setting, on the inlet shore, surrounded by high mountain peaks.
Did I mention fishing here? It was a good day for halibut.
It was a fairly decent day for Pacific Cod as well, and a few salmon too.
There is a cruise ship terminal here as well as a year round, ice free, small boat harbour. Note all the sailboats.
The salmon packing plant is going full speed ahead. A large salmon trawler was being unloaded as we stopped by.
The separate, sort and select the salmon for various markets including canning, frozen, and fresh shipping.
After a while, we headed back towards Anchorage, across the Kenai Peninsula.
Both coming and going, the views of the mountains are awesome. We even saw a moose today, but failed once again to get a picture.
Like most of Canada and much of the lower 48, there are two seasons in Alaska; winter and construction.
These cute little Dall Sheep were hanging around beside the highway on our way home.
We had dinner at a place called Bridge Seafood. It is so named because it is build on the old Ship Creek Bridge. The new bridge is up top.
While we ate dinner, the locals were salmon fishing in Ship Creek.
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