Our big activity for this Thursday was a cruise of Resurrection Bay at 12:30, so we decided to fill our morning with a visit to the Alaska Sealife Center . It's a fun small aquarium focused on local animals, a great place to get a close look at some of the animals we were hoping to see later that afternoon from the boat. We especially loved the seals and sea lions here, as well as the large touch pools with anemones, sea urchin, and starfish. Next, we headed over to the harbor for the cruise with Major Marine tours , a 4 hour wildlife viewing cruise. The boat had two levels, each glassed in and filled with tables. You could move around as much as you wanted in the open areas, but you were assigned a specific booth for your seat. The top level had open decks on all sides, but our bottom level had open space only at the front and back. We quickly realized that the back deck area both reeked of diesel and was incredibly loud from the motors, so the uncovered lower front deck be...