The bay is located near the town of Seward, and stretched to around 30 kilometers into the land. Like most of the places in Alaska, the bay to is covered with mountains until you face the open sea. And there are several hills that decided to stay for themselves and formed islands. No surprises that the bigger mountains are covered in snow, probably round the year.
Resurrection bay is called so because this is a wildlife preserve and you can see a great population of animals here. The ones that attract every one most are the killer whales. We were fortunate on that day to be able to see a good number of them hanging around us for more than half an hour. Most of the islands around are full of birds or sea lions. Sea Puffins and sea gulls form most of the winged population but the most attractive of the lot are bald eagles. Bald eagles are not in big numbers but they are in numbers good enough that no one will miss them. One great event we got to see was the fighting of two bald eagles for a prey one of them had caught just then. It did not last long though......
