Alaska

It has been a while since I posted, but internet is sparse in this part of the country and when we get it we are always in a rush. Since we posted last, we have traveled many miles. From Denali we headed South on scenic hwy. 3 to Anchorage, with stops, a detour to Talkeetna, base town for all the Mt. McKinley expeditions, and Wasilla, home of Sarah Palin ( I kept looking for her or Levi at the local SaveWay, but no such luck!).

Our destination was the beautiful Kenai Peninsula, know for it's world famous fishing in the Kenai river. We got all the way down to Homer, a neat town with a 4.5 mile tongue sticking out in the ocean, called the spit. We actually camped there. We went on a halibut off-shore fishing boat and caught 29 lbs of delicious halibut (2 fish each, legally allowed). We fished at 280 feet deep and they were not easy to pull up. We got them all cut up, bagged and frozen in our little freezer ready to bring home, minus the ones we eat on the road.

Next town was Seward, a beautiful seaside town with a campsite right up on the seashore. We watched a couple of eagles catching fish, it was quite a sight. We had really nice weahter there too, which made it even more special. We had a great salmon dinner at a local restaurant for my birthday, a nice change from the campfire cooking. On the way back to Anchorage, Tony tried his luck fishing in the Kenai, but only caught a "Humpy", a pink salmon which the locals say is not worth eating, so he threw it back hoping he would catch a silver, but it didn't happen.