I was born in Anchorage, but I’ve made several ventures to other places in Alaska. They are as follows: Seward- I’ve been here mostly for the Seward Sealife Center, both on school field trips and for my sister’s ninth birthday. I love the Sealife Center; any collection of people that devote their time to the rescue, rehabilitation, and release of animals has an A OK in my book. The whole facility is presented as a learning experience for visitors so while you get dive bombed by puffins, you get to know more about them. The aforementioned puffin pelting is courtesy of the bird room: an open aired, netted room with different sea birds available for the public view. By public view, I mean you are in the same room with the birds. There was a Harlequin Duck a foot away from me while I was in the bird room. You get splashed, squawked, and dive bombed at by the birds. It’s my favorite part of the sea life center. As my love for Seward extends mostly to the Sealife Center, I don’t have …show more content…
This is a tunnel that has a mountain over it and it has to be aired out by jet turbine ventilation between each train and car trip made through it. At the end of the Whittier Tunnel (which is both exciting and terrifying) is the lovely city of Whittier and their local fudge. In addition, my main selling point for visiting Whittier is to see the Buckner Building, an abandoned military base that once housed the entire city of Whittier. This place is huge, as is befitting for a building that housed an entire city. It had a small hospital, a 320-seat theater, library, barbershop, and housing for the people stationed there and their families (with room for more people too). After the 1964 earthquake and the military’s disuse of the Buckner Building, it was abandoned and stands today as the dilapidated“City Under One Roof”, but it remains a cutting figure in