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| Beluga Lookout Campground in Kenai City is perched where the Kenai River joins Cook Inlet. In the far distance you can just see the peak of Mt. Redoubt, an active volcano. |
Kenai is a quiet little town with a lot of personality. We spent a week there. This is an historic wooden Russian Orthodox Church that is still in use. It was only 3 blocks from the campground. |
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| Across from the Orthodox Church is Veronica's Restaurant. The building is an historic cabin, the ambience inside antique chic, the food original and excellent. I loved the place. |
While we were camping in Kenai, Bob fished the Kenai River 9 miles upstream in Soldotna, where the fishing was best. This is one of the many "fishwalks" in Soldotna. Bob is the blue dot in the middle. While Bob trolled for salmon, I walked. |
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| Another Soldotna fishwalk. Bob is in the blue sweatshirt. A 9 mile bike trail connects Kenai and Soldotna, and another 6 mile bike trail connects Soldotna to a coastal road. I had some great walks on them. |
After coming back from Soldotna, and all other evenings, our lifestyle was the same. Bob read and I worked on the computer writing a trip log or writing emails to be sent at the next datajack. Note the basement storeroom and wine cellar under the table. |
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| Sometimes Bob managed to wrest the computer away from me to do his email and bookkeeping. |
Stony Brook campground in Seward was brand new and hard to find. But we persevered, and spent our week in Seward tucked in the mountains near a rushing stream. |
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| The new log house facility had a rec room upstairs with a datajack, and a laundry and showers downstairs. I could sit at a window and gaze at the mountains as I did my email inside - no breezes or bugs. |
We took another Alaska Heritage Tour out of Seward, this one of Kenai Fjords National Park. These remote, forbidding sentries guard the ways of the sea — and harbor thousands of nesting seabirds. |
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| Do you see the dragon's lair in that crack near the sea..... |
and the wizard on the far peak calling down the thunder? |
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| The clouds parted and a ray of sunlight picked out the high cirque glacier. |
Although we saw huge chunks of ice calve from Aialik Glacier, there were not as many floating around the bay as there were at Columbia Glacier. Aialik is a tidewater glacier. It comes down to the sea, so the tour boat was able to get quite close to it. |
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