Seward, Alaska

Seward is a couple hours outside of Anchorage, and one of my favorite drives. You drive through the Chugach Mountains and end up in Prince William Sound. Anchorage is on the Cook Inlet side of the mountains and cook inlet is mostly sandy beaches, it’s relatively shallow, with strong currents and tides, there isn’t really much to do on the water in Anchorage. You can travel down Cook Inlet and sometimes see Beluga Whales, and find razor clams, but coming from the Aleutians, when I think of the sea I think of sea mammals like whales, sea lions, sea otters, fish like halibut, salmon, cod, and shellfish like clams, mussels, bidarkis (chitons), and these things aren’t really plentiful in Cook Inlet. The Prince William Sound side of the Chugach Mountains was carved by glaciers, so you have the mountains coming right out of the water, and all the biodiversity I think of when I think of the ocean. Since it’s only a two and a half, maybe three hour drive, it’s a really fun place you could visit in a day. These photos are a combination of a couple different trips taken between 2019 and 2020. Some of the photos are from some of the hikes around Seward, others are when we took a charter fishing trip into Resurrection Bay, and others are from just driving around town. I don’t have any pictures of the Sea Life Center, but if you go to Seward I would highly suggest going, especially if you have kids.