Adventures in NoMadness we're at the inaugural Alaska Escape Rally in Seward Alaska 2021
all right we had a great time meeting new friends at the first ever Alaska Escape Rally and
yeah we got to do some traditional Alaska stuff we had some moose meat tacos we had some king salmon
it was fun just getting together with a couple Alaska Escape folks and
having potlucks getting out enjoying some of the amazing
recreation opportunities here we'll show you some scenes from the first ever Alaska Escape Rally
well hey this is resurrection bay and I want to hike with phyllis as part
of the escape rally and right behind us is this public use cabin over here
phyllis got me out on this hike didn't think I was wanting to go after a
big long thing I did yesterday and we even got to see a whale so awesome out here
okay well we had to say goodbye to our new friends yeah we had a really good time at our little
mini Alaska escape rally now we're heading to the Seward sea life center the Seward sea life center
was built with funds from the Exxon Valdez spill and its main purpose is to rescue wildlife
so after the oil spill there's a lot of wildlife that needed rescuing and needed help
and the center continues that with orphaned and injured wildlife after they bring to the center
and I've been there a couple times it never gets old they really struggled this past year without
the tourist dollars coming in especially last summer and so they had a bunch of fundraisers
and a lot of businesses across the state really pulled together to help them because they were
they were kind of in jeopardy of closing which would have been really sad but we're still here
and still helping wildlife and we're going to go even though we've been a couple times because we
we love them and we want to support them so let's go check out the wildlife river
everything's pretty good a pretty easy walking distance around Seward one of the other reasons
we love it so much but we're walking back to our campsite from the sea life center and
you may notice that this is all along the waterfront it's all camping I mean it's
kind of weird right that you have this city of about 200 people and the prime real estate is
nothing but campgrounds and I'm sure you're wondering why is that well the 1964 earthquake
was a massive earthquake and devastated a huge part of Alaska including Seward
so there was lots of buildings and canneries and stuff along the coast here right on resurrection
bay and then when that 1964 earthquake happened there was a big tsunami here and it just really
devastated the shoreline so basically what they decided to do after that is not have any buildings
along here because of the tsunami hazard and just make it all campgrounds because they have a big
tsunami warning sirens if uh there's a big tsunami coming they can warn people and then
everybody in their RVs could just drive away hopefully in time so it's great camping this one
over here or some of these have full hookups and the one we're in doesn't because we have
all of our solar panels so you kind of can choose between what you want but tons and
tons of back in camping with that amazing view and midweek so lots of open spaces right now too
I'm going snagging it's snaking season here in Seward almost forgot where I was at so there's
hatchery fish that come in and they allow you to snag them versus just fishing for them
because there's so many of them there's kings over here and there's reds over there on the other side
and one guy just caught one over here and let me go see if I can catch us dinner for tomorrow night
yeah that hook scares the heck out of me
you gotta be careful with that I'll bet the emergency here gets lots of visits
hey we're gonna go do some exploring on the other side of the bay we have never been over there
so we thought we'd check out we've heard there's fishing boatyard and a camping although it's very
much like a parking lot camping so we thought we'd go see for ourselves and I hope you'll come along
well that was actually kind of a cool trip over there never been over there before there is a
campground over there too we checked out and it's literally a parking lot and I think it's about 20
bucks a night no hookups of course but it's all about the fishing over there so if you want to
camp over there we went and checked it out there's a spot over there where you can go snag hatchery
salmon and we might go try that while we're here but when we're over there had very unique
experience with Jimmy he was an indigenous Alaska native and he was just sitting out there just come
back from fishing and he had a pot boiling already he motioned me to come over because he wanted me
to see his uh bullhead whale that he was cooking up so got some pictures of that he even offered
to let me try it but I declined so it's a main food source for indigenous peoples in
northern Alaska and so that was great that he had some and was willing to share it thank
you for following our Seward adventure we're on to the next spot where is it
I don't know we don't have reservations I guess you'll have to check out next week's video to see
where we ended up happy travels and hit that like button would you we always appreciate it