The gorgeous Kenai Peninsula is our favorite spot in Alaska so far. This place definitely fits our criteria for a great summer job location with ocean waves crashing at the base of nearby snowcapped mountains. We are about 40 yards from the water facing Resurrection Bay in the best camping spot this entire trip. Our plans for today were to hike to Exit Glacier in nearby Kenai Fjords National Park but it is raining and 52 degrees so we came to the library to look for a wi-fi connection and wait out the rain. I'll share some of Bill's good photos of this area while we wait.
Incomparable scenery on the 127 miles Seward Highway south from the urban setting of Anchorage is a photographer's paradise. The highway winds along the north shore of Turnagain Arm, crossing the isthmus that separates the Kenai Peninsula from the rest of south central Alaska. World class fishing on the Kenai, Russian and Kasilof Rivers, and in Resurrection Bay, Kachemak Bay and Cook Inlet attracts more boats and wading fishermen than you can ever imagine.
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| Anchorage in the rear view mirror |
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| This peninsula is 150 miles long and 70 miles wide. It is bounded to the east by the Gulf of Alaska and west by Cook Inlet. |
These next shots are what we see out the front window of the Wee RV sitting on Resurrection Bay.
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| Seward Harbor is a busy place. |
Bill entertained himself for hours trying to photograph frisky sea otters that kept ducking under the water. We learned from a film at the visitors center that the sea otter has the most dense fur of all marine mammals with over 700,000 hairs per square inch. Now that's a fur coat!
They grow everything "BIG" here, especially mosquitoes!
My traveling companion's fun meter has pegged with sitting in the library, so we're off for an adventure in the rain. If I can talk him into staying here for the rest of the summer I'll post again soon.
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