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| Wednesday |
| found us heading south on the Sterling Highway, to discover |
| the Kenai Peninsula. Supposedly home to over 4000 moose, |
| this beautiful land changed character completely at least 4 |
| times
in the first 100 miles we drove.
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Glassy lake on the Kenai Peninsula
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| This day's drive was the only one all week delayed by road |
| construction. The roads in Alaska were surprisingly well |
| maintained, considering that the construction season had |
| barely begun by the time we got there. Just south of the Hope |
| turnoff, we had a half hour wait for our pilot vehicle to show, |
| and we spent that time pleasantly chatting with our "flag girl" |
| who was from Soldotna. |
| I honestly don't think we met a single native there, nor but a |
| tourist or two, who wasn't friendly and extremely helpful ! |
| The Kenai River | |
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| The lakes and streams here have a very unusual cobalt blue |
| coloring --- said to be from the glacier ice of which they are |
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Russian River Ferry |
| I'm really not sure where the Russian River Ferry took people |
| to or from, since I didn't read the board, like Mom did. |
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| We had originally planned to drive all the way to Homer, |
| but with the road delay and all, it was a good thing Mom's |
| friends just lived in Sterling. It gave us that much more |
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to stop and take pictures on the way back !
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Some of Kenai's beautiful scenery...... |
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| And so, for us, it was back to Aleyska again, to re-pack our |
| overflowing suitcases one more time & be ready to move |
| back to Anchorage, and points northward again in the |
| morning. |
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us on our journey !
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| By Day | By Location |
| Sunday | Matanuska Glacier |
| Monday | Portage Glacier |
| Tuesday | Big Game Alaska |
| Wednesday | Whittier |
| Thursday | Prince William Sound |
| Friday | Kenai Peninsula |
| Trapper Creek | |
| Alaska Facts | |
| Denali | Chugach Range |
| Approximate Driving Distances | |
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| AWARDS | |
| The Kenai Peninsula |
| consists of approximately 16,079 sq. miles land and 5,585 sq. |
| miles of water. Home of the Kenai Fjords National Park, |
| which lies south and west of Seward, 130 miles south of |
| Anchorage, on the Seward Highway, the entire peninsula |
| has less than 47,000 residents. Well known cities are Homer |
| and Seward, as well as Sterling, Hope and Soldotna. |
| Residents here make their livings by commercial fishing, |
| tourism, oil production, agriculture, lumber & timber, charter |
| fishing and transportation. |
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