Seward

Seward, at the head of Resurrection Bay on the eastern side of the Kenai Peninsula, was founded in 1903 to serve as an ice-free ocean terminal port for the Alaska Railroad. The town was completely rebuilt after the earthquake in 1964.

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We operated Field Day with the Seward Amateur Radio Club, KL7SWD, from the softball field in Seward.

The Alaska Sea Life Center has interesting birds and marine life.

Marine life:

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Birds:

Tufted puffin, Fratercula cirrhata

Horned puffin, Fratercula corniculata

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Common murre, Uria aalge

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Pigeon guillemot, Cepphus columba

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Black-legged kittiwake, Rissa tridactyla

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Smew (males left, female right), Mergellus albellus

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King eider (males, left, female, right), Somateria spectabilis

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Harlequin duck (male left, female right), Histrionicus histrionicus

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Kenai Fjords National Park and the Holgate Glacier aboard a small boat:

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