North Pacific Passage to Japan
Ocean Cruise from Vancouver to Tokyo via Alaska
Seward
On Sunday, September 21, we docked in Seward, a small town on Resurrection Bay on Alaska's southern coast, about 120 miles by road from Anchorage.
The town has about 2800 people. It was named for former United States Secretary of State William H. Seward, who orchestrated the United States' purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire in 1867.
Seward is the southern terminus of the Alaska Railroad and the starting point of the original Iditarod Trail to Interior Alaska. It is also an important cruise ship port.
We visited the Alaska Sea Life Center which has seals, sea lions, fish and birds. Afterward we walked around the small town and later took a bus to the Exit Glacier trailhead for a drizzly hike to an overlook to see the toe of the glacier.
Seward Cruise Ship Terminal (1876)
Alaska Sea Life Center (1877)
Alaska Sea Life Center (1878)
King Eider (1881)
King Eider (1893)
Common Murre (1887)
Tufted Puffin (1902)
Feeding the birds at Alaska Sea Life Center (1911)
Spotted Seal (1916)
Spotted Seal (1930)
Resurrection Peninsula and Bay (1972)
Resurrection Peninsula and Bay (1974)
Seward (1975)
Brown & Hawkins General Store (1977)
Seward Main Street (4th Ave.) (1978)
Historic Iditarod Trail Mile 0 (1979)
Exit Glacier (1987)
Exit Glacier (1990)
Exit Creek (1995)
Exit Glacier (1998)
Exit Glacier (8395)
Climbers on Exit Glacier (2004)
Along Exit Glacier Trail (2006)
Along Exit Glacier Trail (2010)
Resurrection Peninsula (2019)
Harbor Seals on jetty (2026)
© Tom Lebsack