Glaciers everywhere, and beautiful water...

June 27, 2012

Left Anchorage fairly late for us, probably close to noon.  But we have fresh water, clean clothes, everything is charged, and we have a few fresh groceries.  Drove thru the downtown area of Anchorage, our RV park was actually in the center of town, odd I know, but what can I say...

As you leave Anchorage, there is a beautiful inlet, Cooke Inlet, and much marsh land.  The tide comes in 30 - 40 feet, and leaves some very tempting area to explore, but the Mile Post says do not fall into that trap - that there is quicksand out there, created by the silt and sand, and you could get stuck and not be rescued until after the tide comes back in.  So needless to say, I stayed away!  I love exploring areas like that, to see what the sea has left, but did not think it was worth it at this time. 

There were Dall Sheep on the mountains, but I was not quick enough to get a picture, so you will have to trust me on that one.  There was also a place to pull off and look for Beluga whales, which we did of course, but we were not lucky enough to spot one.

We headed on down the Sterling Hwy and passed several more glaciers.  They look like flat ice that has run and remelted, I wonder if they used to be high like the mountains, that is how I had always imagined them.  They found plane wreckage at one of the local glaciers, that was from a 1952 plane.  The glacier had moved it 12 miles since then, which I guess gives us an idea of how fast they move...

We made it to the turn off and decided to find a place to camp and just drive Didi into Seward - well, everything was full due to the salmon running, so we ended up parking in overflow parking for the night, which was fine with me - we couldn't build a fire, but it was raining so we wouldn't have anyway - and it was only 8.00 a night. 

Since we had stopped a bit earlier than usual, we had time to just chill, read, clean the windows ( in the rain - Charlie not me...) and just relax.  Looked for bears, there are many around due to the salmon being near, but did not see any.  We are right next tot he Russian river, at the Russian River campground, if anyone is looking at a map. : )  The water in the Kenai and the Russian river is the way I thought water would look in Alaska - clear, but not transparent, and sort of greenish blue, just like the glaciers....

Tomorrow we are going to go to Seward, and then come back, stay here, and try to fish is possible.  There is a little ferry that goes across the river that looks fun.