Friday, August 2, 2013

Trip to Seward, AK, July 22, 2013

This is our first viewing of Resurrection Bay on the trip to visit friends down in Seward.

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The City Park where we volunteered several times has had a major facelift.  One of the residents donated new playground equipment which was installed by volunteers on “work days”.

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There is also a large new covered pavilion with tables and a center grill that can be reserved.  We saw lots of people having picnics here where the wind is blocked by large windows.

Driving out Nash Road we could see the city of Seward across the bay.

IMG_0206-City of Seward from across Resurection Bay

There is a correctional facility and a large dry dock operation on this side of the bay. Some of the ships in dry dock may never return to the water.

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We have noticed many times that material used for buildings here in Alaska was “recycled”.  Here at the dry dock  old shipping containers were used for the sides of  the buildings

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As we departed we drove out to Exit Glacier.  The gold miners “exited” Harding Ice Fields used this glacier when entering Alaska in the search for gold.

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Since we were here last a new visitor’s center has been constructed.

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One of the interesting exhibits was showing the difference in the weight of new snow, snow several years old and glacial (compacted snow over many years).

The fireweed along Exit Glacier Road were beautiful.

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