Kenai Peninsula

July 11, Friday Heading around Seward AK.

    Drizzling rain today, so driving around the town of Seward.  

It’s the city of murals…16 total on sides of buildings…so we searched out the murals.  

 Seward, Statehood mural, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Seward's statehood.

Our flag flys in Washington

This ones easy, the Iditarod Trail

  Ode to the commercial fisherman...

 This one was too cute, Senior Prom

 lots of wildflowers...It's acutally called the Wildflower Quilt

A photoshop memory of lots of times in Seward

  

 these 2 were near the Sea Life Aquarium that we did the next day.

 View up the mountain by the Sea Life Aquarium.  I love the way the fog is covering the mountain.

 These are the Fog Woman, with Raven releases the Sun and Moon.

 these are illustrating how Aviation has affected Alaska.

 and the last one was about the sea life surrounding the area.  It was the hardest to find, we went around the block at least 3 times looking for it.

Walked the strip, quilt and Yarn shops for sure. Tried a Nature store and found a great new gluten-free flour.  Home to the RV to try it out on biscuits!  Will let you know how that turns out.

July 12, Saturday

    Sea Life Aquarium today, lots of Puffins, Sea Lions, fish and a few lectures on the area and how they reacquaint the sealife back into their environment when they have been beached, infected or the young abandoned. 

 This is the view out toward the mountains in Seward.

 Our new home for a few days in Seward Military Base Resort.  This has been one of the most beautiful parks we have stayed at.

July 13, Sunday-Leaving Seward, heading to Soldotna

   Not a long drive today, trying to get toward Soldotna to get the wheel bearings looked at, the only RV repair place on the Kenai Peninsula.  It’s only a short 60 miles, so we are thinking to just find a place to stay the night on the side of the road.

  Alas, that idea didn’t work, the road was under construction when we got close to Soldotna, so stayed in an RV fishing park for the night.  Decided this am to go ahead and head to Homer area instead, this RV place seems a bit “shady”, so we think it will be better when we get back into Anchorage. 

    

July 14, Monday-Soldotna to Homer this am.

    Its’ raining again this morning, a very light drizzle…I can tell that if I lived where it rained so much, I would need to learn new raining terms…drizzle, heavy downpour, cloudy with rain, sun with rain. Yuck!!  I am missing the SUN!!!

   Driving the road from Soldotna to Homer, trees on both sides of the road, glimpses of lakes, rivers and small steams on both sides, but no moose!!  I want wildlife!!  Stopped for a few minutes at a Wood Carvers site.  He does an amazing job, Scott Hanson, moved from Minnesota to Alaska years ago and has his own shop here now.  Only takes orders for bears, moose carvings and some he sells in his shop.  I love his work, we may stop back on the way home for a small carving to put at my front door. 

   Found a spot in Anchor Point, 15 miles north of Homer, to settle down for a few days.  What a peaceful and quilt place.  Met another couple here from San Antonio, they are on the way back to the lower 48 (see I’m turning into an Alaskan now) in a few weeks.  He has been fishing here and got several Halibut this last week.  Lin is thinking about a trip out on the Inlet for Halibut.  Can’t decide whether to go catch some or just buy it here from the fish processing plants.  Drove to Homer and down the Spit to sit and watch the fisher-people, the shops coming in, but the crowds here are crazy!!  Stopped for dinner at Captain Pattie’s, the scallops and halibut were amazing.  Decided to head back to our RV as the crowds are too much after so much peace and quiet.  Nice time sitting outside with other RVers’ and just enjoy watching out for moose this evening. 

 

 July 15, Tuesday-Anchor Point AK

   What a view out our back windows this am!!  We backed up on the Cook Inlet, great area of plains grass between the Inlet and us, where the moose and the caribou play…except as I sit here typing, no moose in our back yard this am.  I do love all the windows open and the surrounding view though.  I can see the ships on the water, and Mt Redoubt across the Inlet is clear and covered in snow.