If you ever wind up near Anchorage, Alaska, there’s a fair chance you’ll make the trip south to Seward. If you can, take the train. Three hours of pristine mountains, glacier lakes, glaciers, and wildlife are well worth your time. It’s an excellent way to travel and see the Alaskan wilderness without leaving all the comforts of home, like climate control and food.
While up in Alaska I was lucky enough to visit Seward several times and in several different seasons. During the summer it’s one of the best whale watching places in Alaska. Plan ahead and bring a raincoat, Alaska can be cold and wet even in the summer time. In the pictures below the super cold and rainy pictures are from June, the sunny pictures were from late September of the same year and the whales had already left (but the sea lions were there).
Seward is also a top school trip destination in May. Prior to the start of the tourist season the tour boats convert to floating science labs that do plankton trawls and look for wildlife.
