How's this for a view out our window???? It's the view we have from the Oceanview RV Park. We could never get used to views like this....it's stunning.
This is a glacier, also across the Kachemak Bay...Wosnesenski Glacier. Is that a Russian or Polish glacier? Just try to say it fast 10 times.
This may be the only moose we will see. People keep telling us that they see dozens; they positively guarantee it! We've seen a handfull, and most of them are on the yellow signs that say "MOOSE CROSSING"
This sign was in the village of Kenai, at the lake. I hope it shows up so you can read it. But it is the nicest way I've ever seen to tell people to pick up after themselves....
Kenai Lake....isn't it beautiful
Another view of Kenai Lake....could never get enough of this.
This is Petersen Lake....we camped here. Awesome view; no trout.July 11;
left Hope at 11 a.m. It was overcast and 56 degrees. We had met some folks from Ohio who had son in Granger, IN. If ya talk to enough people, you always meet somebody who knows somebody….right?
Heading towards Homer on the Sterling Hwy, which cuts across the Kenai. Awesome vistas, mountains, rivers & lakes; Chris saw a moose calf. Couldn’t get enough of the view. Kenai Lake gave me some beautiful pictures; I’ll post some of them. Then we followed the Kenai River for a while and considered some of the campsites. We finally camped, after a whopping 73 miles today and 3 hours traveling with lots of stops to take pictures, on Peterson Lake, a little out of the way public campground about half way across the Sterling Hwy to Soldotna. Chris tried to land some trout for dinner…no luck. And I was just itching to grill them.
And, now that we are further south, it’s now starting to get “dark-ish” at night now….I do like that.
July 12; Saturday; Clam Gulch State Park
We drove a whoppin’ 50 miles today. We got started about 10 a.m., to a beautiful partly cloudy day of 53 degrees. We drove to Soldatna, where Karen Lynn’s daughter, Paige, had her corgi dog in agility competition. That was loads of fun to watch. I saw an Italian greyhound that just loved me and jumped right up on my lap. Needless to say she won my heart.
When Paige was done with her competition we left and started out again toward Homer. Beautiful day that it is, we didn’t want to spend it driving…and stopped in an hour or so at Clam Gulch State Park….right on the Cook Inlet. Don’t especially want to clam, OR clean them, but we have the most beautiful view of the Inlet right out our door. Would be an awesome place for a picture window in a house!??? Took a walk down on the water front; lots of people w/ shacks or trailers there. Definitely didn’t look like over-night camping. They were fishing with big nets. We think that they are living by “subsistence”; something you can apply for if you want to “live off the land” like do all your food with fishing and hunting.
July 13, Homer, Alaska
We were on the road by 7:45 am and it was 61degrees; rainy. We went to bed early last night…consequently we woke up early. Ain’t it rough?
Got to Ninilchik, an old community that begun when Russia still owned Alaska. Drove out to see the Russian Orthodox Church. Wasn’t comfortable to go inside because it had a sign on the gate : “If you have relatives here (i.e. in the cemetery) you are welcome.” I kind of felt that we might not be.
Stopped and got an espresso at a drive-through (one of hundreds that dot Alaska everywhere!). They are about the size of a van and you can find them anywhere. Alaskans drink more coffee than any other state. I kind of surmise it’s because when they have their 24 hours of sun, they need the coffee to keep themselves going…because they are very active till quite late…like I heard stories of some folks mowing their lawn at 11
p.m., forgetting that it was too late to mow lawn. Then in the 22+ hours of darkness in the winter, they must need the coffee to get themselves going when their body says it’s night. Really must mess up the rhythm of the body…
We had looked for a Catholic Church on our Garmen…nowhere close. Then just 100 feet down the road, presto, there was a church. And of course people were still driving in. Skidded in to a very nice little church. They didn’t have a priest there today, but they had a Communion Service. Place was packed.
Then on down the road toward. Shopped a little. Loads of campers and people. Very many more than we saw in Seward.
We are camping right on Katchemak Bay (note another Russian name?). Awesome view of the Bay; AND there are showers here J
Raining again. Has been drippy all day. Stopped in a restaurant for a halibut dinner for lunch. Of course, one never has room for dessert when you go out for dinner…so we decided to go out for dessert instead of supper. Works for me!
After lunch we went to the “Alaska Islands & Ocean Visitor Center”. Saw a lot about the largest seabird refuge in the world…along the Aleutian Islands…very interesting…
Chris has his charter to go halibut fishing on Tuesday out of Ninilchek; he’s looking forward to that.So, until we “connect” again…
Heading towards Homer on the Sterling Hwy, which cuts across the Kenai. Awesome vistas, mountains, rivers & lakes; Chris saw a moose calf. Couldn’t get enough of the view. Kenai Lake gave me some beautiful pictures; I’ll post some of them. Then we followed the Kenai River for a while and considered some of the campsites. We finally camped, after a whopping 73 miles today and 3 hours traveling with lots of stops to take pictures, on Peterson Lake, a little out of the way public campground about half way across the Sterling Hwy to Soldotna. Chris tried to land some trout for dinner…no luck. And I was just itching to grill them.
And, now that we are further south, it’s now starting to get “dark-ish” at night now….I do like that.
July 12; Saturday; Clam Gulch State Park
We drove a whoppin’ 50 miles today. We got started about 10 a.m., to a beautiful partly cloudy day of 53 degrees. We drove to Soldatna, where Karen Lynn’s daughter, Paige, had her corgi dog in agility competition. That was loads of fun to watch. I saw an Italian greyhound that just loved me and jumped right up on my lap. Needless to say she won my heart.
When Paige was done with her competition we left and started out again toward Homer. Beautiful day that it is, we didn’t want to spend it driving…and stopped in an hour or so at Clam Gulch State Park….right on the Cook Inlet. Don’t especially want to clam, OR clean them, but we have the most beautiful view of the Inlet right out our door. Would be an awesome place for a picture window in a house!??? Took a walk down on the water front; lots of people w/ shacks or trailers there. Definitely didn’t look like over-night camping. They were fishing with big nets. We think that they are living by “subsistence”; something you can apply for if you want to “live off the land” like do all your food with fishing and hunting.
July 13, Homer, Alaska
We were on the road by 7:45 am and it was 61degrees; rainy. We went to bed early last night…consequently we woke up early. Ain’t it rough?
Got to Ninilchik, an old community that begun when Russia still owned Alaska. Drove out to see the Russian Orthodox Church. Wasn’t comfortable to go inside because it had a sign on the gate : “If you have relatives here (i.e. in the cemetery) you are welcome.” I kind of felt that we might not be.
Stopped and got an espresso at a drive-through (one of hundreds that dot Alaska everywhere!). They are about the size of a van and you can find them anywhere. Alaskans drink more coffee than any other state. I kind of surmise it’s because when they have their 24 hours of sun, they need the coffee to keep themselves going…because they are very active till quite late…like I heard stories of some folks mowing their lawn at 11
p.m., forgetting that it was too late to mow lawn. Then in the 22+ hours of darkness in the winter, they must need the coffee to get themselves going when their body says it’s night. Really must mess up the rhythm of the body…
We had looked for a Catholic Church on our Garmen…nowhere close. Then just 100 feet down the road, presto, there was a church. And of course people were still driving in. Skidded in to a very nice little church. They didn’t have a priest there today, but they had a Communion Service. Place was packed.
Then on down the road toward. Shopped a little. Loads of campers and people. Very many more than we saw in Seward.
We are camping right on Katchemak Bay (note another Russian name?). Awesome view of the Bay; AND there are showers here J
Raining again. Has been drippy all day. Stopped in a restaurant for a halibut dinner for lunch. Of course, one never has room for dessert when you go out for dinner…so we decided to go out for dessert instead of supper. Works for me!
After lunch we went to the “Alaska Islands & Ocean Visitor Center”. Saw a lot about the largest seabird refuge in the world…along the Aleutian Islands…very interesting…
Chris has his charter to go halibut fishing on Tuesday out of Ninilchek; he’s looking forward to that.So, until we “connect” again…
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