Anchorage to Seward 15/07/10

First off I must mention that I had a conversation with Joe (the owner) at our last accommodation and he told me that he was amazed to see that the bike was on time as he has never seen this before(and he said he gets a lot of people biking around the America's to varying degree) . He was saying that normally the bike seemed to arrive about 1 to 3 weeks after the people arrived to pick it up (much to the peoples disgust) . So I guess a feather for your hat Wayne for being the first to get a bike into Anchorage on time and lucky for I me I guess .

The Photo is of Seward , if you click on it it should enlarge '

Yesterday we had a great day just wandering around Anchorage , I would say the shopping area was as big as Hamilton . The only incident was when Ruth thought she had lost her Passport and we spent about 2 hours looking for it including ringing the police, but to later find out that she had left it back at our room . We are still having problems sleeping as it is so light at night , I reckon I have only sleep about 4 hrs a nite . Last nite I look out he window at 3 o'clock and the sky was still blue , it is very hard to wind down as it feels like its about midday all day and nite .

Today our first day on the road was very uneventful approx 250km , the road from Anchorage to Seward was mostly a 4 lane highway , but the views were beautiful and reminded us a lot of the South Island , with snow on all the mountains around (just pockets not covered ) .

But can someone please ring Paul Henry and get him over here to sort out all these bloody white maggots in there camper vans ,( well I think they should be called white Hou Hou Bugs over here as they are so big), they just hold up the traffic and are bloody nuisance's .

The weather today has been a bit cold approx 13degs and over cast . We are staying at the Hotel Seward quite nice and a bit pricey for our budget but it was all we could get .

Seward looks over Resurrection Bay and is approx 22kms down a fjords from the sea , it has a population of around 4000 people employed mostly by the Parks and Reserves ,Commercial Fishing and it has the biggest maximum security prison in Alaska . The most unusual fish that is caught is a Halibut which is a giant flounder which can grow up to the size of a car trailer . Also we had a chance to see some Puffin Birds , a real hard case bird and very cute with some most unusual antics ,and also 4 large sea otters messing around just of shore .

Tomorrow we are heading back north to Talkeetna its about 2 hours north of Anchorage, probably around 450km tomorrow.