We stayed for two nights in a motel at Anchorage in the worst drug infested area.  We made it ok.  It was good for american food and near normal prices.  We went to a market festivial  downtown.  There was a bout two hundred booths set up.  It was fun. We found city life boring We booked a campsite and also a day long cruise at Seward.    We got to our campground and set up our tent, it rained again, down at the boat ramp they had a cook out.  We've never tasted such good halibut, the dinner for seven dollars was big, good, great, wow.  Sunday we went to church at Seward.  It was a branch.  There were about fifty people there and when they asked the visiters to stand there was only about twenty people left. 

  Monday the day of the cruise.  It was raining hard but when we got on the boat it stoped raining.  Nice boat,  They filled all one hundred and fifty seats.  Its fast at twenty eight mph.  We got to see all kinds of birds nesting in the cliffs up close since the brought the boat within twenty feet of the cliffs.  Scared me at first being so close in such a large ship.  We went from island to island to see the seals and birds. 

We went to Addison glacier.  It is hugh. Nearly a thousand feet thick at the base.  We were so close close that I couldn't get the whole glacier in the picture.  He took us less than a quarter of a mile close.  There were like rifle shots, they were loud it was just the ice cracking.  Even as close as we were if you were not watching at the right spot you would just hear a very loud noise and look just in time to see the ice hit the water.  I did these next shots.  I had my camera set to to two pictures a second while holding down the button so I got a good series of pictures. 

This is the beginning.

This is when it was its biggest.

This is the end.  Lasted about fifteen seconds.

Seals having a discussion of whos boss.

This is a humpback whale.  The first time I saw him his tail was out of the water.  We followed him for about a half hour, but all he did was hump his back for us.  We had dinner on the boat around noon and on the way back we docked at Fox Island and had an all you can eat Salmon and Steak dinner with all the trimmings. Couldn't have been a better day.  The captian did the tour.  He talked the whole time telling us everything he could about everything we saw.  Everyone commented on how this was the best cruise they have ever been on.  It someone saw something in the water he would stop or turn the boat around to have a look.  He was really fun.