5 20 SEWARD

Seward was like a homecoming. We had spent 7days there at the end of our first Alaskan cruise in 2002. We returned to the B&B we had stayed at and visited with our hostess. We told her how much she had done to make our stay very memorable. Then we went in search of places we had not been before. We wandered up a canyon and met a young lady and her dog and had a great visit with her before heading down to walk on the beach looking for rocks and shells.

Seward is a lovely town of about 4,000 that has many cruise ship visits per week. The downtown is sweet with shops that are a little friendlier than your general tourist town. The people are very friendly. Some of the shops were not opened yet, since this is the beginning of the season. We were surprised to see that there were some for sale signs on both businesses and shops. We were told that tourism was down and some businesses were having a hard time of it. Seems to be the same all over.

Arleen hiding behind her camera in front of a beautiful waterfall we missed on our first visit

Arleen hiding behind the dog we played with