We have left the Kenai Peninsula and after a day’s stop here will continue north tomorrow to Denali National Park. On our last day on the Kenai we joined salmon fishermen on the Russian River ferry across the glacial milky Kenai River. Fishermen and women lined the south shore casting into the more transparent water from the Russian River tributary. Their objective was to draw the fly across the mouth of a sockeye salmon and hook it across the mouth. You see snagging is illegal and it is tough to get a sex starved fish to bite!

Our objective was not to see the fishermen, but we did enjoy seeing the salmon coursing over the cobbles. Farther upstream at the mouth of the Russian River the water was clear and full of the large salmon. Fishing is prohibited upstream of the ferry cable. We had come to see the bears that were making the fishing a bit dicey. It did not take long to find a big one. The shaggy red brown bruin appeared at the shore of a wooded island. We watched from the top of the bluff as the beast waded out and then swam back to shore a few times. It wandered the length of the island and then crossed to another smaller one. Our friends got great photos as it grabbed what were probably fish scraps from the fishermen.

I just ran across this group and thought you would enjoy their song Bill Me Anytime . You will need the real player to hear the song.

June 7, 2007 – Seward, AK

Rain falls this afternoon. Our friend Ed and Chuck work on chores in the motor home. Nancy and Anne are visiting the Sea Life Center in town. The Bear Creek RV Park is a small one about five miles out of town in the small community of Bear Creek along a stream of that name. It is not fancy, but has the necessary utilities and wireless internet. Varied thrushes chime in the surrounding woods. That is good enough for us.

We were happy to leave the Mid-town RV Park in downtown Anchorage. The location was great tactically and the price was good for a three week park during which time we flew to both St. Paul and Nome. The spaces however were too narrow and most of them were filled with folks who were barely making it in Alaska’s biggest City. We left our space much cleaner than when we found it. We could not do much to improve the rest rooms that could stand a good demolition and replacement.

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