Seward

We wake up to another rainy morning with low clouds covering  the surrounding mountains. After breakfast we start the drive south to Seward on the Kenai Peninsula, a very scenic ride through the mountains still with streaks of snow on them. 

The ride starts running along the Turnagain Arm, a long narrow bay south of Anchorage. Lots of turnout for cars to view wildlife out in the bay.  Rain, low clouds limits being able to see much of anything. Lots of road construction widening on this narrow cliffside highway shared with railroad tracks to Seward. After ½ hour or so, we leave the waterside highway to head up the Resurrection Pass Trail through the mountains. Coming down from the pass to Seward is the Sargent Icefield to the east and the Harding Icefield to the west. Even though there were much higher mountains in the Alaska interior, the cooler year round average temperatures on the coast and higher precipitation enabled these glaciers and Icefields. Unfortunately these glaciers are rapidly retreating, in some places a couple miles in the last twenty years. Glaciers that calfed icebergs in bays 60 years ago have retreated back up valleys and now end miles from the ocean. Not only are they retreating, their width and cross section is a small fraction of what they were 20-30 years ago.

Yuk day in Seward

We arrive to a very wet and rainy Seward.  The coastal mountains disappear into the clouds.  We find our RV campsite at the municipal campground, which is riddled with puddles. We just park and rest, before we drive into town for dinner. Then back to our RV site, still raining. Forecast for tomorrow is partly sunny, rain is suppose to stop around midnight