Alaska: Day 7

For our day in Seward, we enjoyed a tea, golden milk, and breakfast sandwiches at local spots, including the Rowdy Radish (which I kept calling the Randy Radish).

There were a lot of super cute arts and crafts stores in the Seward downtown with lots of work by local artists. I bought a lot of cards, including some new puffin cards for my work wife who wants to eat puffins (maybe) and also a magnet with a parody of the Dark Side of the Moon, replacing Moon with Loon. It was amazing.

We drove out of town to the Exit Glacier Hike in Kenai Fjords National Park. The park service had placed signs to show where the glacier was several years ago, or 50 years ago, or 100+ years ago. It was sobering.

You can always tell the glaciers apart from snow by their characteristic blue hue:

Exit Glacier

We had snacks and beer flights at the Tidewater Taphouse, which sold Burt and Linda's favorite type of smoked fish schmear. 

Then we headed to the Alaska SeaLife Center just before they closed for the day. Burt and Linda are members there and showed us the walrus they got to hang out with, as well as the sea birds they got to feed. The sea birds were super fun to watch, even if we were afraid we were going to get pooped on.

Alaska has two types of puffins, including one with eyebrows! You could also pet starfish and sea anemones, which I saw others doing but I was a'scared.

Then at the end of the day, we visited the Cookery for dinner, where Dave had the best oysters of his life. I couldn't believe he'd like an oyster more than the Maine or Rhode Island oysters, but there you go. Apparently next time we have to get to Homer, where they are grown!