Seward, part 2

I’ve been in Seward almost 2 weeks. It’s a nice small town, and it’s main industries seem to be tourism and fishing.

     

Camping at the water’s edge, you have a great show in front of you, and it goes on all hours of the day and night. We’ve seen orcas, humpbacks, seals and sea otters, and many eagles right in the bay. Plus, a constant parade of boats of all shapes and sizes, and even one crazy freaking person waterskiing out there!

  

We continue to fish, and have a lot of fun with it! Seward serves up a couple of nice sunny days, which makes it even better.

     

OK, so you caught all those fish… Congratulations! Now what?

Well, first you get to drag or carry 50-60 pounds of fish back to the truck. It’s like a half mile away. Whew!

  

Then, you fillet them all out and either freeze or smoke em. This is Tuesday. We went fishing at about 4pm, really started catching them around 6, and both Wallace and I limit out with 6 each. We get ‘em back to the truck about 8:30, then stop at the marina to filet them all out. 6 of these fish have an appointment with the smoker tomorrow, so I spend the next couple hours prepping them and getting them into the brine overnight. The next morning, the fish comes out of the brine and onto the smoker racks to dry for several hours. Then, it’s into the smoker.

  

About 8 hours later, the fish is all smoked and packaged. Alaskan salmon, smoked in Alaska, doesn’t get any better than this!

  

My last day in Seward, Wallace, Wanda, Elouise, and her grandsons Kenny and Colin and I hop on the Major Marine glacier tour boat and spend an amazing sunny day cruising the fjords. Look, there’s my RV! 

  

We see many animals and birds along the way, including many Orcas. in fact, we cam upon a pod of 4 swimming and playing in tight formation, apparently, an unusual thing!

     

We visited a stellar sea lion rookery. It was amazing watching them up on those cliffs, and wondering how they managed to climb up there!

        

Here are some more assorted animal pix.

     

And the glaciers! That is so cool to see. The boats get quite close, and you can hear the glacier creaking and snapping. Every so often, a big piece of ice falls majestically to the water with a BOOM!, We’re talking a piece of ice the size of a Buick! And those are the small ones. These bergs slowly float away. this is called “calving”. Why, Hell, I don’t know, it just is!

     

Check out these videos of glaciers calving!

www.marxrv.com/glaciers.zip

These boat trips are very well managed, and organized. We had a park ranger onboard to talk about the wildlife and the glaciers, and lunch was excellent prime rib and salmon on a buffet. The crew even went out and captured a chunk of glacier ice and made margaritas out of it. Cheers!

     

I’m leaving Seward now, with a freezer full of salmon, and will hook up with some other gooseys, maybe go to Hope for the weekend, we’ll see. I’ll be coming back to Seward in a week or so to go Halibut fishing, so there will be a part 3. Till then, enjoy this alpenglow shot, taken out my front door about midnight Friday evening.