2024 Alaska Road Trip (Day 34)

This journal posting chronicles Day 34 of a road trip to Alaska and back with Diane, Kenny and Deneen.


Day 34 - Friday July 26th

Today was our third full day staying at Williwaw Campground near Whittier, AK.

After getting up and driving to John and Pat’s rental house for breakfast, we headed south on the Seward Highway to visit Seward. It was a wet and rainy drive. By the time we completed all the day trip driving and were back at camp, it was a fair distance with a total of 251 miles/404 km.

Pat and Diane took the rental car, and John, Deneen, Kenny and I drove down in my pickup. Along the way Diane took the photo below of my pickup in the rain.

Seward Highway (Hwy 9), AK

Upon reaching Seward, we walked around downtown and checked it out. It was pretty small, but as we always do, Kenny and I made sure we checked out the marina.

Marina - Seward, AK

From the mouth of the marina, looking SE out into Resurrection Bay, it was a very picturesque view. Note the bald eagle drying its wings on the daymark piling in the bottom right of the photo.

Resurrection Bay - Seward, AK

Then a couple jet powered tour boats raced towards the marina entrance, certain to scare the bald eagle, although to be honest I don’t think the bald eagle cared at all.

Resurrection Bay - Seward, AK

After spending some time in Seward having a small lunch and trying out the local brewery beer, we next visited the Exit Glacier just outside of Seward. The glacier is inside the Kenai Fjords National Park.

Upon making it back to Girdwood at the end of the day, we drove to John and Pat’s rental house and I made beef stroganoff for six people using the left over steak from last night. There was still more steak left over.

After a very nice dinner we drove back to our campsite, along the way there was an excellent rainbow over Turnagain Arm.

Since the sun is finally starting to go down earlier, there was some beautiful evening light on the mountains near our campground.


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