View Larger MapThe 25th is Eric's Birthday. We had a nice breakfast and did our best to check out of the B&B by 11:00. The weather was calmer than yesterday so we went out to Miller's Landing hoping to catch a late kayaking tour to the calving glacier. No luck, we were too late. The weather would have allowed it, but we missed the tour by hours. None of the available tours interested us so we changed our plans. At Miller’s Landing we saw the funny sight of a fishing charter loading-up the boat, and everyone got on the boat while it was still on the trailer and then they launch the boat! On our way out of Seward we stopped at the NAPA auto parts store (lots of boat parts also!) to get some extra tire repair string for the rest of our M/C trip. We also stopped at the grocery store and bought supplies to have a barbecue/picnic.
We heard that there were several sightings of Grizzly/Brown bears at Bear Creek Weir so we drove there. We saw warning signs all over about a Moma bear and cubs in the area and we saw the salmon jumping the fish ladder, but no bears were around at that time.
We then visited Exit Glacier just outside of Valdez. There were signs along the road up to the parking area and signs along the trail from the parking area to the Glacier showing how much the Glacier has receded over the last 200 years and where the Glacier reached in any given year.
There was a birthday mini-celebration for Eric's Birthday.
We watched the "clean-flicks" version of the movie, "The Kingdom of Heaven" and went to bed at Midnight. Below is a view out the bedroom window at 23:30. What a view!No big plans for tomorrow. We need to prepare the bikes and ourselves for the rest of our trip.