Today was a free day in Seward.
We visited several local attractions, including the Ocean Sealife Center (I may have the name wrong). This center was set up to display and inform people what types of studies are being done in Alaska.
In town this Sunday there is a Mount Marathon race. It was the talk of the town and was even on the Anchorage news. It is a race from in town at sea level, 3,000 feet up a rocky mountain and back down. This is the 83rd year for it. The trail up is different than the trail down. One of the problems encountered is that the runners in the lead often loosen rocks as they are running, and the rocks roll downhill onto the runners behind.
Later in the day we drove out to Exit Glacier, a short distance from our cabin. We did see a brown bear across the stream, but it ran into the underbrush when it saw us.
The photographs are of a pair of Puffins and of Exit Glacier.
I forgot to mention that on Tuesday, after we arrived, we visited a sled dog kennel near our cabin. the owner won the Ididarod in 2004.
Signed:
The Wayward Travelers
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