After our visit to the Sea
Life Centre, we checked into our hotel.
Our room had gorgeous views across Resurrection Bay, after which we took
a walk around Seward.
The bay is naturally ice
free and in 1895 a network of trails were created to transport, men and goods
to mining camps on the Turnagain Arm and Kenai River. Eventually the trails stretched as far as
Nome.
The actual town of Seward
was founded in 1903 by the Alaska Central Railway Co, as the ocean terminus of
the proposed railway to interior Alaska.
After the project went bust the unfinished rail bed became part of the
network of trails. The Alaska Road
Commission improved the trails and named it the Seward to Nome Mail Trail. After the 1909 gold stampede to Iditarod the
trail became known as the Iditarod Trail.
The famous 1,094 mile
Iditarod Trail Dog Sled race from Anchorage to Nome was first run in 1973 and
in 1978 it was designated as a National Historic Trail.
Just some of the beautiful murals
we saw on our walk around town.
The coastal path has
campsites along the way to the harbour, with fabulous views across the
bay.
If we were in our fifth
wheel this would be a fabulous view to wake up to on a gorgeous sunny
morning. Not so sure we’d feel the quite
same if it was snowing though!
Seward is a lovely town and
luckily for us the sun shone almost all the time we were there.
Have fun, we are!
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