Part 15 in a series about our trip to Alaska in late June through mid-July, 2011.

We woke up Thursday morning to beautiful weather.  We had a leisurely breakfast of ham, cheese, and egg English muffins cooked on the fire (only gourmet camping meals for us!)  Then we were off for our day’s destination:  Seward (only a short drive away).

First stop: Exit Glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park

We took a nice, easy hike along the old moraine and then up to the active moraine above toe of the glacier.

We enjoyed the small beauties of the hike along with the main event.

At the top!

This area was so recently uncovered that it was still completely bare rock with no vegetation growing at all.  Sort of reminded me of how I picture the moon would be.

(Proof that Ellie did indeed climb her first glacier – on her father’s back.)

After our fun glacier adventure, we drove on into Seward and beyond, to Lowell Point because Noah wanted to try some surf fishing.  The wind was so strong that Selah, Ellie, and I stayed in the Suburban and the guys went out to fish.  The fishing didn’t last long but isn’t this an awesome picture?!

We ate dinner in Seward and then us girls killed some time outside the sporting goods store while the guys chose a new knife for Noah.  Selah took these pictures for us!

She really was upside down.

And with that, we headed back to our campground, full, happy, and glad to be together.

To be continued…