Blogs from Kenai, Alaska, United States, North America - page 2

Where on earth is Seldovia? Well... it is tucked away in the Kenia peninsula opposite Homer in Alaska, with a population of about 260 and the only way to get there is by seaplane or boat! There are no roads connecting Seldovia to the rest of Alaska. It felt like an Island but we had to keep reminding ourselves that it was part of the mainland.. It is a stunning little place, there is so much beauty - it's impossible to describe or to capture. Besides the natural beauty there were also a few restaurants and 1 teeny litlle grocery store, no roadmarkings or stop signs and very friendly locals. If ever you are in Homer it's SO worth taking a boat or seaplane out to Seldovia. It was about a 2hour boat trip there, we ... read more

Our RV park is located between Soldotna and Kenai on the Kenai Pennisula. This area is very busy with people coming here to fish. We drove to the town of Kenai today. I took a picture overlooking the Cook inlet joining the Kenai River. Hopefully, you can see all of the people dip netting for salmon. They are literally standing next to each other. They are on both sides of the inlet. They had their tents set up there also. The dip net season for salmon started July 10 and ends July 31. They use a 48" diameter loop net that is on a long pole. They all had on heavy waders as I am sure the water was cold. The air temperature was around 60. I am not sure of the maxium take on this ... read more

We left Palmer this morning - beautiful sunny day - around 70. Drove south of Anchorage on the Seward Highway. Absolutely beautiful drive with the mountains on one side and the water on the other. I thank God for the eyes to see all the beauty he has given us. We drove through the Chugach National Forest and came to the Portage Valley where the Portage Glacier and several other glaciers are located. Beautiful. We had lunch in our RV looking at the Portage Glacier. Don't think you could get a better view anywhere. We traveled on down the Kenai Peninsula. Again, this drive is beautiful. Lots of lakes and rivers. I noticed in the Kenai River that there were fishermen standing in the water fishing. I asked Carroll about this as he lived here and ... read more

Saturday, June 18, 2011 Diamond M Ranch and RV park, Kenai Have now driven 10,028 miles. 55 degrees at 11:00 High clouds I worked some more on the daily narrative to try and get up to date and Valerie added pictures to my previous entries and posted a few to the travel blog. We both worked on cleaning Rosie II more. We had to leave the space by 11:00, so we closed things down and drove over to the bathhouse to take showers. Since it was 11:30 before we left, and we wanted to do some shopping in town, we stopped at a Mexican restaurant for lunch. We had a really good meal and took half of it home and had it for dinner. Filled the gas tank before we started out also. Since it was ... read more

Today we head back south through Anchorage to Kenai Penisula. We had to stop off in Wasilla for our Wal -Mart fix, and to once again look for Sarah. No luck on Sarah, but we picked up the needed supplies for the next few days. We drove through some beautiful mountains along side the Kenai River, and some feeder streams. We chose the Beluga RV Park in the town of Kenai. It was very cramped parking but if it had not been cold and raining it would have been some nice scenery. It was at he end of the pinkies, a species of salmon and residents were allowed so many days of net fishing, and I have never seen so many people along the banks of a river in my entire lifetime. Faith, Barbara, Marcus ... read more