Seward is located on the east side of the Kenai Peninsula, 127 miles south of Anchorage. As in Homer, the city has beach front camping on Resurrection Bay, offering dry camping for $15.00 or electric sites for $30.00. We again snagged a great spot. There are beautiful, huge mountains opposite the bay,
but fog and clouds partially covered them during our entire stay.We saw an occasional sea otter cruise by doing the characteristic back-stroke, a few porpoise, and so many eagles, they no longer illicit the frantic grab for the camera or binoculars. We watched cruise ships come and go with a graceful 180 degree turn around to exit the bay.
We had hoped to take an all day boat tour through the Kenai Fjords National Park, but pouring rain and 13 foot waves dampened our enthusiasm. 
During a small lull in the rain, we did take a short hike to the toe and up further to the edge of Exit Glacier. 
It is amazing to see the amount of melt water that can pour out of a glacier day after day, year after year.We also took in the Alaska SeaLife Center.
This is Alaska’s only public aquarium and the only cold water aquarium in North America. The ocean wildlife rescue center was formed after the Valdez oil spill. They take in orphan birds and animals of all types to rehabilitate and hopefully reintroduce to the wild again. We enjoyed watching the antics of puffins, 
seals and sea lions
as well as many other sea birds and fish,
about 177 different species in all.The weather report for the next ten days is more of the same or worse, so we decided to move on. The wildlife and fjord cruise was not to be on this trip. We are beginning to see why RVers return to Alaska several times. There is just not enough time to see everything, even if the weather did cooperate. It was fun to sit in the back window and watch the waves in the bay and listen to the wild wind. But tomorrow, off we go.
Leaving Seward for better weather we hope. That is us behind the tree.
One last cruise ship on our way out.
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