Day 67 of Our RV Journey to Canada & Alaska 7/18/14 - Went to Kenai Fjords National Park to View the Exit Glacier & Seward Boat Harbor

Late this morning, we all got in Bob's truck and went to the Kenai Fjords National Park to view the Exit Glacier. We hiked to it and got real close.  There was another steep trail that went to the top of the glacier but we didn't do that one.

view from far away

view very close to the Exit Glacier --above the glacier is Harding Icefield

 notice the two below picture have chunks breaking off the glacier

How a glacier forms?

We took Jesse & Ginger to their RV after we got back, and Bob and I went to the post office, ATM, and rode around in Seward for a few minutes.

Later, we all met at our picnic table to eat early dinner.  Ginger made some really good wraps with lettuce, bacon, chicken, cucumbers, tomatoes, swiss & provolone cheese, and ranch dressing in them. She served chips to go with them. 

After we ate, we walked to the Seward Boat Harbor to watch the catch of the day come in.  We each found a chair to sit in so we just sat there at the harbor and watched the fishermen bring in wheelbarrows of fish that were caught today.  They must have a ongoing halibut contest here because there is a board hanging up and right now a guy from Russia is in top place catching a 312.2 pounder, and second place is a guy from Missouri that caught a 260.6 pounder.  The board list the Top 10 so far.

salmon, pacific cod & halibut

the brown fish in the middle is ling cod

the big halibut on the hoist weighed in at 67 lbs. 

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Russian guy in the running for 1st Place,

halibut weighed in 312.2 lbs.

Missouri guy in the running for 2nd Place,

halibut weighed in 260.6 lbs.

 The harbor has a large fish cleaning station.  The fish waste gets thrown in the middle trough and drops down to some kind of boat that catches it and at various times of the day that boat takes off into the bay and empties the fish waste into the bay.  When that happens, you wouldn't believe the number

 of sea gulls, etc. that are following that boat....wouldn't want to be the

person to take that boat out in the bay.

see below the caged in area that is a boat of some kind

that the fish waste drops down into to be disposed of

later in the bay 

JUST SOME PICTURES AROUND THE SEWARD BOAT HARBOR

'Radiance of the Seas' Cruise Ship (Royal Carribean)

This picture shows pins have been placed to discourage birds to perch....

(now, that would HURT!!!  Ouch!!)

 

Something unique that drove through the campground tonight,

and something BIG that spent the day in Seward...
(this taken from door of our RV).

Radiance of the Sea (Royal Carribean)
(Jesse & Ginger took their first cruise on this ship)

and a little Reindeer that was at the harbor area on a leash

Have a great day!!!

Propane $22.20 Cab/Diesel $80.00 (4.599/gal x 17.396)/Gen Gas $11.00 ($4.429/gal x 2.483) Cab/

Fd $6.50 Cab/

Misc. $15.00 Cab/

Groc. $71.89 Cab/

jl