Seward’s folly

Day 62 – Tuesday, August 13

We travelled to Seward Alaska today.  Seward was named for US Secretary of State William H Seward, the guy who helped arrange the deal to buy Alaska from Russia.  At  one time Alaska was called Seward’s folly.  (But that changed when they discovered gold in Alaska!)

Seward is another neat town with another wonderful view.  Our campground overlooks Resurrection Bay.   It is the city campground, right on the water, and the downtown is just a few walkable blocks away.  There is a lot more activity on this bay than we saw in Homer.   Pleasure boats, fishing boats and sightseeing boats all come by here, right in front of the campground.   Also, there is a cruise ship port here.  Our caravan friends (Paul and Barbara from Oklahoma)  have a sister on a cruise that is coming into port on Thursday, so he will get to see her while she’s here…neither of them realized their paths would cross on their separate Alaska trips…kinda neat!

I finished the blog yesterday before our evening entertainment, so I missed posting a picture of the Homer ukelele society that played for us last night after our cookout and root beer floats!  They were very unusual and entertaining. Even a prior mayor of Homer was part of the group!

I took this picture of the view out our front window on Homer Spit before we left this morning.  (It finally stopped raining, and the sun came out.) 

This picture of the motorhome shows how close we were to the water.

 

This morning we drove 175 miles from Homer to Seward.  It was foggy at times, but nice and easy compared to some of the roads we’ve been on.  The view of the mountains changed—the clouds seem to curl around and hug the mountains.  And, there were a lot of waterfalls visible on the side of the Kenai mountains as we passed through.

 

 

It was a gorgeous day. 

 

Once we arrived in Seward, We went to the library to see “Waves over Seward”  a movie on the 1964 Good Friday earthquake which devastated the city.  It had footage from the actual quake and showed the huge tidal  waves coming in.  It also featured interviews from many of the residents who shared memories from that day.  Now I sure understand why there are tsunami evacuation signs.  It was really unbelievable.

Tonight we had a halibut dinner…yummy!!!! Here are pictures:  before, during and after the grill!  It was hard to believe this fish was on a hook yesterday, and on our grill today.  It was just delicious!  We grilled it with lemon juice and some lemon pepper spices.

Our Texas friends, Patrick & Bernadette, and our wagonmasters Duane and Marlene joined us for dinner.  (Duane was the chef tonite.)  We have 30 more pounds of fish to go!!  And, we’re signed up to go on a salmon fishing trip on Thursday!  We may have gills when we return to the lower 48!