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And I have returned, with 103 pictures, for your viewing pleasure. I have uploaded about 30 of them on my flickr page, and they are just lovely (if I may say so myself).

Seward (still) is an absolutely beautiful town. This time, I went on a tour/cruise. And it was free! Ah, the benefits of knowing a local. On said tour, I saw: sea otters, dalls porpoise(s?) (sadly, my pictures of them did not come out well, so the link goes to GIS), a couple seals (but the sightings of these were only brief, so I have no pictures of them), a bunch of eagles, a ton of steller sea lions (with pics aplenty), a few mountain goats, and some random, unnoteworthy creatures. The dalls porpoise were amazing. We came across three pods (are they called pods?) of them, two of which decided to swim/jump along in front of the boat for a while. They look like tiny orca. Very neat. The steller sea lions were also very neat, though far less active. Mostly they just sat on their rocks making their strange sea lion sounds, occasionally swimming around or fighting with each other.

And, of course, I still can't get over the color of the water there. Plus, there were dozens of starfish all along the shoreline, and some pretty big orangey jellyfish floating about. I saw this one, crazy starfish (which I have oh-so-creatively dubbed the SuperStarfish) with seventeen arms! A picture of said mutant can be seen on my flickr page.

The drive along the Seward Highway was even more beautiful than last time, with the mountains all snowcapped.

As you can see, I've gotten the events rather out of order, in my excitement to relay things. But that matters not. After the tour, I went to the Sealife Center, which was kind of interesting. I got to touch some starfish and some squishy thing. And a little after the Sealife Center, I went gun-shooting! (as seen above) And that was quite the enjoyable time.

So then. Go, see, enjoy the pictures. I have many, many more should anyone wish to see them.