Day 10 – Resurrection Bay

Horned Puffins

We spent last night in a nice little bed and breakfast in Seward.  Seward is a coastal town at the head of Resurrection Bay.  When the Great Alaskan Earthquake of 1964 hit, Seward was then further damaged by a 30-foot post-quake tsunami that leveled most of the town 40 minutes later.  Seward was quickly rebuilt and today is a center for fishing, bay tours, a starting point for the Alaska Railroad and also a cruise destination port.  The Celebrity Millennium was in port today.

We took the 4 ½ hour Kenai Fjords Resurrection Bay Wildlife tour which included a stop for an all-you-can-eat lunch of prime rib and salmon.  It was a great tour and we spotted several humpback whales, dolphins, seals, two kinds of puffins and a variety of other birds.  

Humpback Whale

They don't get too close to the whales as they are roughly the same size as the boat so the picture is little small.  If you look closely, you can see the remains of where the whale had just spouted water as a mist just to the right.  When the tour was over, we drove 2 ½ hours north to Anchorage.