ubeetrip: Seward

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Route: Vancouver, Squamish, Inside Passage, Ketchikan, Juneau, Skagway, Glacier Bay NP, Seward, Alyeska, Anchorage, Talkeetna, Denali, Fairbanks, Valdez.

Places: Resurrection Bay, Waterfront Park, Alaska SeaLife Center, Seward Hwy, Seward airport. South Fork Snow River, Lower Trail Lake, Summit Lake, Canyon Creek, Turnagain Arm.

Wildlife & flora: Dusky rockfish, Crimson anemone, Tufted Puffin, Decorated warbonnet, Red-legged kittiwake, Horned puffin, Pigeon guillemot, Long-tailed duck, King eider, Common murre, Steller sea lion, Sea peach, Sea pen, Sea anemone, Sunflower sea star, Sea star, Coho salmon smolt, Salmon, Aleutian skate, Rock Salmon, Prowfish, Yellow Irish lord, Walrus, Otter, Spotted seal, Dungeness crab, Stereolepis.

⏳ Jul 2, 2017

Ms. Zaandam in Resurrection Bay

Seward is a port city in southern Alaska, set on an inlet on the Kenai Peninsula. It’s a gateway to Kenai Fjords National Park, where glaciers flow from the Harding Icefield into coastal fjords. Surrounded by peaks, the fjords are a whale and porpoise habitat. The city’s Alaska SeaLife Center has seals and puffins, and fishing boats fill Seward Harbor. To the west, a trail leads to the summit of Mount Marathon.

Alaska SeaLife Center

The Alaska SeaLife Center, Alaska’s premier public aquarium and Alaska's only permanent marine mammal rehabilitation facility, is located on the shores of Resurrection Bay in Seward in the U.S. state of Alaska.

Dusky rockfish, Crimson anemone

Red-legged "Kittiwake" (from Russian: "the bird that talks a lot")

80% of the world's population is in St. George Island, Alaska. They breed only in the Bering Sea.

Decorated warbonnet

Tufted puffin

Can fly 48 to 55 mph (77 to 88 km/hr), reach up to 400 wing beats a minute and look like a black and white football.

Horned puffin

Horned puffin (called "sea parrot" or "sea clown" by early sailors)

Interesting fact: can carry up to 80 sand eels back to nest to feed their one chick; they have spines on their tongs to hold the fish while catching more.

Pigeon Guillemots at nest

Both parents incubate the eggs for about four weeks.They are one of the few alcids (auk and puffin family) to lay two eggs (three guillemots of the genus Cepphus and the four murrelets in the genus Synthliboramphus usually lay two eggs).

Long-tailed duck

Circumpolar, breeding on the Arctic coasts.

Their call can be heard on a calm day up to 2 miles across the ocean.

King Eider

Arctic sea-duck, diving more than 150', well adapted to frigid climates and seas near the freezing point, resting on ice floes. Colorful male, in breeding plumage.

Interesting fact: When they molt in late August they go flightless for 40 days.