Friendsgiving, 2022

 

Alaskan Vaca 2022 - Day 9, Our First Glacier On The Road To Seward

It has come time to check out of a great AirBn'b and none of us were happy about this fact.

Rob and I were still up at 1:30 am and I told him that I was going to walk down to the lean-to on the beach as I did NOT want to leave this place and he asked if he could go with me, like I'm going to pass up an opportunity to spend time with a teenager who asks to spend time with me!

1:30am; Rob and myself listening to the waves and having a fantastic conversation.

We had a visitor!

The water was cold!  lol

Drippy Caleb slightly out of focus on the upper half.

Next up are some pics of our AirBn'b...

You can see the top of the lean-to just to the left of that camper and pine tree in the left part of the pic.

Carl, the owner, lives upstairs for the summer and lives at his other AirBn'b in Cabo during the winter.  That is some kind of life!

I did a TON of writing  at that table where if pondering something, I could simply turn to my right,  look out the window and see the Redoubt volcano across the waters of the Cook Inlet.  Absolutely beautiful.

Robby in the chair where I took my most favorite and best nap of my life.  The breeze off of the water was blowing across my feet as I napped.

Carl was building a cement whale tail to put out in the back yard.  I said, "Dude, you need to put that out front for your guests to guide them in.".  He really liked that idea so I'm curious where he eventually put it.

Morning came quickly and we found ourselves packing, drinking coffee, doing dishes, sweeping and other stuff all the while dreading leaving.  The feeling was similar to the feeling when we left the Big Island in Hawaii and Rob was so sad as I think it was his favorite place that he'd been to that point.  His posture in one of the early pictures that represented how we all felt leaving here. 

Once everything was cleaned, loaded and so on, we left and locked up. I ran into Carl as I was heading out and thanked him for everything including getting to play with his daughters Jack Russell Terrior puppies.  He then told me about the jumping fish about 1.5 hours previous as they were migrating North not far from shore.  That would have been cool to see...

So we left for Seward, heading thru Kalifornsky and Soldotna.  Mama Chaos spotted a bear in the St. Elias Brewing Co. parking lot as we were leaving Soldotna.  I spotted a bear many more miles down the road in a private drive but that was about it.

This was on the way to Seward.  Airplanes instead of boats at the docks.

Looks like an album cover if he ever becomes a musician.  Love him!

Before getting into Seward proper, we took a detour to Exit Glacier and went on a bit of beautiful hike.  It's cool as they have signs with a year on it to indicate where the base of the glacier was at that time.  Cool stuff.  It was good to do a little hiking for once instead of driving/sitting/riding or something...

That's the glacier from a distance.

The glacier from a much closer, and colder, view.

My fams!

Rob with a sign representing his birth year.

Caleb and Mama went up further for a closer view.

Sasquatch with a coat!

 

Caleb dancing across a log bridge.

I like bathroom signs that I find funny.  Apparently, there was an issue in this bathroom with people flushing...   Thank you kindliest.

This is in Seward, Resurrection Bay.  We went to the Alaska Sealife Center and had lunch at Seasalt.  The Alaska Sealife Center was ok but would have been "more gooder" if the boys were 5 & 7 years old instead of 15 & 17.  That scar on the hillside is from a fairly recent landslide.

That's the Seasalt Restaurant.

From the balcony of our hotel.

Cool shot showing a fairly recent landslide that happened.

Then it was back to the hotel to chill for the evening, playing blitz and watching Impractical Jokers.  We're pretty tired at this point...