Exit Glacier and dinner in Seward

After lunch we drove a couple of miles north of Seward to visit the Exit Glacier in the Kenai Fjords National Park. There is no charge for visiting Exit Glacier. We drove up the Exit Glacier Road that goes alongside the Resurrection River. We drove by 2 turnoffs where RVs were dry camping.

From Exit Glacier

After parking our car at the information center, we headed up the 1 mile trail to Exit Glacier a little after 1:;30. Most of the trail was fairly easy, but there were a few places that required a little more effort. The first part of the trail was through a wooded area and there were a lot of flies (at first we thought they were mosquitoes) that were annoying.

Once we got up higher on the trail and out of the trees, there weren't so many flies. The scenery on the trail up to the glacier was beautiful and was a great excuse to stop catch your breath - which I needed to do a few times.

From Exit Glacier

We saw a bench near the edge of Exit Glacier and stopped to share it with one of the Park Rangers. She was nice enough to take a couple of photos of us before we continued on down the trail to the edge of the glacier.

From Exit Glacier

We had gotten warm walking up the trail, but once we were down by the glacier edge we quickly cooled off. Unlike the glacier at the Columbia Icefields that we visited in June and was able to walk out on the glacier, Exit Glacier isn't flat like the Columbia Glacier. But we were able to get pretty close to this one.

From Exit Glacier

From Exit Glacier

It's just amazing to stand so close to something this huge and that dates back to the Ice Age. There were signs all along the trail and even on the road leading to the Visitor Center showing how far down from the mountain the glacier used to be and the date of its location.

We spent about 45 minutes up at the glacier before we headed back down a different trail to the Visitor Center. We bought some postcards at the Visitor Center and a much needed bottle of water (we normally bring some water with us, but we forgot it today). It was after 3:00 when we left the park and headed back to Seward.

When we got into Seward we drove down to Resurrection Bay and saw several campgrounds  right on Resurrection Bay.

From Seward

We stopped by the Lowell Creek Waterfall on the southwest end of Seward and Mike made a movie of it. He also managed to get a photo of a bald eagle flying over the waterfall.

From Seward

From Seward

By now it was after 4:00 and we decided to eat dinner in town. We had seen a restaurant that had Italian, Greek and Seafood and decided to go there for dinner.

We went to the Apollo Restaurant and no sooner had we sat down than it started raining. I ordered their Monte Mio which is a Wild Salmon fillet with Mediterranean herbs, olive oil and lemon garlic sauce with Pasta Alfredo and carrots (vegetable of the day).

From Seward

Mike, who doesn't eat seafood, ordered spaghetti with meat sauce and added meatballs and we both had iced tea.

We both enjoyed our food and just as we were finishing, our waiter came by with a plate of desserts. Mike ordered the Bailey's Irish Cream cheesecake and I had the Kahlua chocolate cheesecake. Ummmmm - delicious!! Our bill for dinner and dessert came to $66.00.

From Seward

We stopped by the Seward Chamber of Commerce to pick up a few brochures before we came back to the RV.

From Seward

We had rain off and on until about 9:00. Our high temp for the day was 55°.