Another beautiful day in Paradise. Today we headed to the Seward Sea Life Center, an Aquarian focusing on the marine life in the Alaskan surrounding waters. Other than heading out onto the water to fish or sightsee the Sea Life Center is on of the major attractions. It’s well done and we enjoyed ourselves. Marsha found herself in a down mood after we watched a film on plastic waste in the world’s oceans.
After a nice afternoon lunch at Zudy’s Café we headed out to explore a hiking trail out one side of Resurrection Bay. The sunny day was a sharp contrast to the temperate rain forest we hiked in. Shortly into the hike we spotted a creature heading up the trail towards us. As it got closer we realized it was a river otter. It was a highlight of the day seeing one so close. Sorry, no photo. Once he got close he finally figured out there were two humans in his pathway so he veered off the trail.
We continued on until we came to a stream flowing into the bay. In the water one could see several salmon (king salmon I think) in the water. It was neat to see the large fish struggle in fighting the current.
Tomorrow we start our journey leaving Alaska. We still to have plans to visit at least Haines and Hyder each of which require us to travel into Canada first. Haines is accessed from the Yukon while Hyder is via British Columbia.
Seeing North America 