June 14 Seward Alaska

 

Location Location Location Unless Tsunami

Tsunami Tsunami

Portage glacier



Ellen with frozen toes 

Even the fire hydrants need gloves in Alaska

Doing dentistry on a fish. Damn big tongue in the way

Ellen went fishing, I read a book!!

Visiting Seward for Ellen's Folly

Today we visited portage glacier which was cool (no pun intended). Due to the lack of light getting into the ice only the blue spectrum gets thru which is why the ice appears blue.  That sounds like a good reason but who the hell knows.  Ellen went to put her toes in the water(she always does that at any body of water we visit) and learned the physical chemistry lesson of supercooled water.  That is water that can be below 32 degrees.  After cracking her toes off her foot she is learning to walk without using toes :-)
We then headed down the Seward highway to the city of Seward (makes sense). Seward was washed away in the 1964 earthquake tsunami and one can see how that happened.  It is at the bottom of a hill and the water comes right up to your door.  If you look at the photos you can see where our RV was and how close we are to the water.  We stayed right on the water for the night again tempting fate that the gods will delay the inevitable.  We went down to the fishing docks and found some freshly caught salmon and halibut.  I still like fish better on a plate with potatoes and vegetables sitting next to it.  A dead fish still looks like a dead fish. See the photo of my salmon friend having his teeth cleaned.
Thats all folks