We have been all over Seward looking for the Salmon and we found them today. This creek was loaded with them and unfortunately these are off limits to fishing.
We are at a non profit agency, a fish hatchery if you will, that collects the fishes eggs, fertilizes them, and releases the fish when they are a certain size called the Fry stage.
It is unknown how or why, but believed to be hormonal, why Salmon return to their birth place to spawn. You think of Salmon as being red and they are just at the end of their life cycle. Normally they are silver.
The fish in the center is starting to change to the red color. This is a fish ladder and it was fascinating to watch these fish jump to get to the higher water to continue their journey to spawn.
This fish on the bottom right missed but wiggles back into the water. At the end of spawning, so to will their life cycle end. I could have watched those fish jump for hours but we wanted to go to Seward Sea Life Center.
What a wonderful aquarium,
but it is more than an aquarium. They do research and rescue. 
This Stellar Seal was having a blast playing and did he ever put on a show.
Loved the starfish exhibit where you could touch the starfish.
We will be leaving Seward in the morning and I can say that I don’t want to go. This town and its residents are so welcoming. Not only is the town is nice
and the Seward Resort Army MWR facility,
but the people who work here are great. I want to thank Boomer for taking the time to collect all the otolith bones for me,
which is time consuming, and for the special gift of one of his halibut. Thank you for your generosity. He actually played a big part in making some special memories for us and he doesn’t even really know it. Just goes to show you, be nice to people, you may have a bigger impact than you know.
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