Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Day 26 Seward

We enjoyed another day of beautiful weather as our first day in Seward. The morning stated off with a young bald eagle checking us out from a tree overhanging the m/h.
Later we went downtown with friends Art and Jo Savoy to visit the Alaska Sealife Center where we spent a couple of hours engrossed in the research and displays being done on all aspects of Alaska sea creatures. Art and Jeff were entertained when a Bald Eagle chased a seagull off his perch over the salmon chute into the harbor and the seagull spent 15 minutes trying to frighten the eagle away by repeatedly diving on it. The center raises young salmon and acclimates them to seawater and will release 50,000 of them Saturday morning into the harbor. The discharge pipe has become home for 2 year-old salmon returning to the hatchery to spawn and all types of sea life including the birds and harbor seals gather for a fish dinner. We returned to Stoney Creek Campground where we enjoyed fresh poached halibut and grilled Copper River salmon for our dinner.
Tomorrow we plan on moving down to the city campground on the waterfront and taking an afternoon/ evening cruise viewing Kenai wildlife including a salmon dinner on Fox Island.