This morning we got up, layered up, and took off for the day. We wanted to try to reach Exit Glacier in Seward, AK. The drive took 3 hrs, but the time flew by. I had my eyes fixed on the windows look at the scenery.
{The Road to Seward}
We stopped a couple of times to park on the side of the road and take pictures.
I thought I would stand on this tall snow bank for a picture. My leg went straight through the snow, up over my knee. I was stuck. The locals wanted to stand and laugh as I struggled instead of helping me up. I’m sure it was a funny sight.
The road to Exit glacier was closed off 6 miles before the glacier, so we had to hike the rest of the way in. We didn’t really want to hike the entire 6 miles to get there, so we just enjoyed the hike for awhile & then turned around to head back.
Then we got back into the car to drive into Seward.We looked at the town a bit and had lunch. There wasn’t really anything to do there in the winter, so we decided to go on to Whittier, Ak.
The only road leading into Whittier goes through a tunnel that is shared with the train. We had to wait for 20 min. until it was safe for traffic to use the tunnel.We decided to feed the birds that were flying around by the tunnel.
This is a mocking bird.
And this is a raven
This is the tunnel we were waiting at.
This is Whittier. I’m sure the village is a lot of fun in the summer. There is a glacier here that we could see. In the summer you are able to take wildlife cruses, and rent kayaks to go out to the glacier.
We had a lot of fun driving around and seeing the sights. The mountains were beautiful and inspiring. We laughed a lot!
pendie said,
February 27, 2010 @ 3:23 pm
Wow, how cool is that?! Thanks for bringing us along on your trip to Alaska. It's on my long list of places to visit.