Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Anchorage to Seward


We left Anchorage about noon to travel the 125 miles to Seward. A few miles south of Anchorage is the Alaska Wildlife Sanctuary. They rescue orphaned animals. Some they can release, like the four baby moose. They were single births and were all six to eight weeks old. We got to see them bottle fed. The bears cannot be released, due to their becoming habituated to humans and would not have enough fear of man. They would then be very dangerous. The three brown/grizzly bears were a lot of fun to watch. One was playing in the water with the leg bone of a moose. Often highway kill is taken to the refuge for the animals to eat.

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