Getting Ready for A Whale's Tale

The movie "Everybody Loves Whales" is currently being filmed in Alaska (see http://www.adn.com/2010/06/11/1319289/hollywood-comes-to-alaska-to-shoot.html).  Filming moves down to the Alaska SeaLife Center later this week and so as part of our annual maintenance cycle and in preparation for the film crew, we have temporarily drained our large sea lion exhibit and are working on cleaning the acrylic windows and some minor renovations to the rock work.

It is a rare sight to see Woody temporarily displaced from this window by our hardworking facilities and husbandry team and so I thought you'd enjoy seeing just what it takes to maintain our exhibits from the inside perspective!  We completed the same task last year in the harbor seal exhibit and the results were outstanding.  I'm looking forward to seeing how this exhibit appears once it receives "the Hollywood treatment"!

For anyone planning a visit to Seward this week, please note that all galleries will be closed on Friday 8th October, however the gift shop will remain open and we'll be open as usual on Saturday at 10 am - we regret any inconvenience.