Our last morning in Seward dawned clear and warm as two cruise ships arrived to add their passengers to the many who are here for an early 4th holiday. Seward is truly a beautiful little community on the Kenai that attracts many visitors and we have enjoyed being two of them.Our next week on the Kenai is being affected by the 4th of July holiday. Since the holiday falls on Wednesday many people are taking a couple of extra days off to make it a long weekend before or after the 4th so it is already very busy holiday. The Homer Spit campground is full for the next ten days so we are spending this weekend in Ninilchik at the Alaskan Angler RV Park and then are going to boondock next week out on the Homer Spit over the 4th.
The drive today up the Seward Highway through Moose Pass and across the Kenai was with clear skies and unlimited visibility. As we headed west on the Sterling Highway towards Soldotna we looked north and could make out Denali-Mt McKinley in the distance as well as other peaks in the Denali Range. When we get up towards the park in a couple of weeks We hope it is as clear.
At Soldotna we turned south along the shores of the Cook Inlet and looking across the Inlet got a magnificent view the Mt Redoubt volcano to the west. The face of the mountain shows the evidence of the 1989-90 eruption that makes it the last active volcano as well as the highest peak in the Aleutian Range.
We are parked at the Alaska Angler and the sun is still out at 11:10PM, it sure is hard to get uaed to going to bed with the sun up.
