Seward

Well, we left the Halibut Capital of the World this morning.  Although we do not fish, we certainly love eating it.  For those of you wishing to have Halibut right about now, this fish dinner was as good as it looks.  We had it last night.

There was a front that came in late yesterday hopefully bringing well needed rain to Alaska.  Homer received it first and the rest of the interior would be getting it over the next few days.  Based on what we received last night, the state will continue to suffer.  The scary part of that front, at least on the Spit, was the wind.  The RV shook all evening rocking us to sleep. 

Left by 8:00 with little signs of any rain having fallen and the wind was starting up again.  We were glad it was a tail wind.  At least for the beginning of the trip.

The mountain tops below, may be familiar since the route is the same one taken from Anchorage to Homer on “The Sterling Hwy 1”.  I guess this will be looking at them from the opposite side.  At least for the first 130 miles.  On this road we saw a Moose cow and her young.  Then we took the Seward Hwy 9 south for an additional 40 miles.  The weather, lack of sun light and low clouds made the mountains interesting to say the least.  Enjoy… (We did!!!)

 

Russian River

Seward seemed like a small, bustling tourist town located on Resurrection Bay, on the East side of the Kenai Peninsula.  Important because it is a year round ice free harbor (pretty surprising here in Alaska).  This has made Seward important to the cargo and fishing industries.  We will explore it tomorrow.  Our campground is about 2 miles outside of town.  A scary gravel road appropriately named “Border Ave.” ends on the campground seen below.  Along this gravel road we saw 2 Seals in the Bay:

 

Here is a shot of town from the RV Park as well as our surroundings

By now we have lost contact with all the other travelers that headed north with us into Alaska via that wonderful road from hell.  Except one couple that we have become friends with.  We now maintain contact via texting.  They are still camping in Denali after having stayed in a Military RV Park in Fairbanks for 10 days.  They both fish and had plans to spend time doing it.

More to come…