Disappearing Glaciers

July 20, 2018

By Taylor

Today we woke up in Seward with all of the cousins. I was really excited to see everyone. We first went to the Sea Life Center. The view by the sea life center was amazing! The Center was pretty cool. It was like an aquarium sort of. There was this cool part with birds and fish that you could walk into and be really close to them. There was also a baby sea otter they had rescued and was recovering. They were feeding him with a bottle. He was really cute.

 sea otter drinking from a bottle at the Sea Life Center

A puffin at the Sea Life Center

After the Sea Life Center we went Kenai Fjords National Park to do the Exit Glacier hike. It was to the bottom of the glacier. On Friday Thursday we are going to do the 9 mile hike all the way up the glacier and to the Harding Ice Field. The hike was really fun. It was kinda depressing though because there were markers showing where the glacier had been at that year. You could see just how much the glacier had receded.

Here I am with my cousins on the Exit Glacier hike

Exit Glacier

After that hike, we drove into town to do a 2 mile stroll around a lake. It wasn’t as cool as the Exit Glacier hike but it was still coolish. There was a pretty waterfall there. We still had a few minutes before dinner so we went and sat by the water in Resurrection Bay. We saw some sea otters there also.

the waterfall on the two lakes hike

by Resurrection Bay in Seward

Then we went ate dinner. It was really good. They had all type of sea food since of course Alaska is known for good seafood. However, a lot of the food was really expensive. One dish cost $58.

After the delicious dinner we walked across the street to look for souvenirs in the town. Porter and I got matching sweatshirts Then we went home. We are going to go to bed early so we can enough energy for the long strenuous hike tomorrow.