Finally a sunny day!! The hiking group headed out around 8:00am. I stayed back and just chilled for a few hours and then visited the Sea Life Center. After lots of cajoling, Alan finally agreed to do this last day of hiking in Kenai Fjords National Park on the Harding Ice Field Trail, which is adjacent to Exit Glacier. As we left the Seward area, we made one last stop at the Bear Creek Weir. We saw a few salmon climbing a fish ladder. It was the tail end of the spawning season, so there were very few. We concluded the hiking tour with a group dinner at South Restaurant in Anchorage.
Harding Ice Field and Exit Glacier
The Bear Creek Weir. A weir is a damn-like structure built across a stream of river. Historically there have been few wild red salmon in Resurrection Bay, therefore, this weir is used to harvest red salmon eggs/sperm. The subsequent fry are hatchery raised and introduced into local waters.
Our guide Drew and I comparing his tattoos to my boot 😊
