Whittier and Seward on the Kenai Peninsula
Drove the car down 50 miles and through a 3-mile, one-lane tunnel to 
The one glacier was 400 feet tall and 300 feet deep under the water and 35 miles long. 
We first glimpsed the glacier about 35 miles away. At one point the glacier seemed just a short distance away when the captain said we were still 1 ½ miles! 
We saw a Bald Eagle, a pod of Orca whales, harbor seals and sea otters. A great day!
Seward
We drove the RV and car back down the peninsula on 
Stopped at one lookout where small white beluga whales are reportedly seen at high tide following the salmon into the inlet, but there weren’t any when we were there. The small town of Seward is a fishing and tourist village – pretty small harbor that also has a cruise ship dock where 100 ships a year at the end (or beginning) of the Inside Passage cruise. 
Seward’s waterfront was devastated by the tsunami from the 1964 earthquake. Instead of rebuilding the waterfront, the town turned it into a waterfront campground; and we were able to get a spot right on the water with the mountains in the background – one of the prettiest spots we have camped. Drove around the small town, had a fabulous dinner at a small restaurant overlooking the small boat harbor.
Spent a couple of hours at the excellent
I had to take another conference call for a couple of hours and then we walked up to the harbor to take a short 2 ½ hour wildlife cruise in the bay. We saw cliffs with thousands and thousands of gulls, terns, cormorants, puffins and other birds. We also saw a large group of endangered Stellar sea lions (one of two groups in the area), more otters, and some of the most beautiful scenery ever. After the cruise, we headed 3 miles out of town to Exit Glacier. This glacier is similar to one we saw near Jasper on the 
That glacier was rather smooth, but this one had giant spires and deep crevices – incredible. We hiked a couple of miles to a viewpoint above the glacier to get some much needed exercise and take some great pictures. Back to our RV for dinner and watch the boats, the otter and the gulls.
Woke up to bright sun streaming across the bay and wishing this wasn’t our last day in Seward. There are two TV channels here and they keep switching around – for a couple of hours one channel carries NBC, and then switches to UGN. Lots of very old TV reruns and the other channel seems to carry mostly
At the junction was a pretty pond with marshes around it where we stopped for lunch. A short way from there is a small creek where the red and king salmon were returning to spawn. We watched these huge salmon try to get up the last two falls in this small creek before they reach the calm water to spawn and then die.
After lunch we drove through the major salmon fishing areas of the peninsula – fishermen shoulder to shoulder in every river and creek along the way. We stopped for the night in Soldotna – this area of the peninsula has Russian background and there are still Russian Orthodox churches in many of the small towns.
The campground is just a large gravel parking lot behind a motel, but they have high-speed internet, so we can send lots of pictures! This area also has views of three massive snow-covered volcanic peaks, but the weather is semi-cloudy and hazy, so the pictures are not very good. We’ll get a second shot at pictures of these mountains when we return in a few days. 
