August 7 From Anchorage to Seward | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| On the 7th we drove from Anchorage to Seward. It's actually only about a 2 hour drive, but we stopped so often it took us about 7 hours to get there. Seward is the southern terminal of the railway. | At one point there were about a dozen cars and tour buses stopped at the side of the road. We stopped as well, and saw what they were looking at, a bunch of Dahl sheep. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| A salmon fishing spot off the highway | In Girdwood, there was a jade shop. This one boulder of jade is being processed. You can see the saw cutting through it. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| This is the Portage Glacier area. The glacier has receded a lot, to the point that it's not touching Portage Lake anymore. |   This is another salmon viewing area, although you can't see too many salmon in this picture. |   This is the outhouse at a rest stop we pulled off into. A tour bus had just happened to stop in at the same time. | Here we are in Seward. Seward is a a favorite stop for cruise ships touring Alaska |   It's also a big fishing town. Walking around the harbor, almost all the ships you see are fishing boats. It seems the water is too rough to make pleasure boating a very pleasurable experience. | We drove out to a shipyard outside of town. It looks like it's partly a ship graveyard, and partly a spot where they repair boats. |   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||