Anchorage to Seward

June 11
It has been a very wet day! Rain and wind, rain and wind, rain and winds! Final destination today is Seward.

We drove through Turnagain Arm. It was so windy.

The arm gets its name for British explorer James Cook, who was forced to “turn again” when he found it wasn’t the Northwest Passage during his 1778 voyage. Turnouts at Beluga Point, Windy Corner, or Bird Point are perfect spots to view spot beluga whales and Dall sheep.

The bore tide, a wave of water that rushes down the arm and can top six feet. Formed by the area’s huge tidal range and focused in the narrow channel of Turnagain Arm, the bore tide hits a speeds of 20 mph and even draws a few local surfers.

Stopped at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Centre just before Portage.

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Headed off to Whittier next. You can get to Whittier by sea or take a long, one-lane tunnel through the mountains, which only runs one way at a time. It’s a fairly inaccessible town, plus at night, they close the tunnel completely. Then there's the weather: The 60 mph winter winds are brutal. The highway is route is through Maynard Mountain and the tunnel 2.5 mile long tunnel that accommodates both a roadway and a railway. There is only one highrise building in Whittier. Everyone in the whole town loves in that building.

We visited the Begich, Boggs Visitor Center.

On our way to Seward we had a tire blow out.