Jerry and Dee's "Ramblings": Catchin’ Up!

Here we are. We are parked right on the edge of 45.5 Mile Pond just off the Chena Hot Springs Road, just north of Fairbanks. This is the third night we will be enjoying this beautiful spot. As my brother says, this is pretty close to what he imagined the real Alaska would be like. The motor home is 10 feet from the edge of the the 3 plus acre pond. We never tire of watching the beavers working right in front of us. Several times a day moose come down to the water to drink and eat the vegetation. Ducks swim the waters all day long. And even though there are just little fish in the pond, there are very nice grayling in the nearby rivers. We love it here. As I write this a young bull moose just appeared and came within 50 feet of the motor home.

But I must backtrack and get caught up on some of the places we have visited and things we have seen. So I will make an effort to quickly cover the last few weeks without getting diverted. Actually it has been a month since I did a formal travel update.

Captain Cook State Park – When we left Anchor Point, we continued our drive north on the Sterling Highway. We pulled into the Fred Meyer’s to get groceries, dump the tanks and get fresh water. One of those friendly Alaskan things happened. We were dumping when a motor home pulled up behind us. I hurried up and finished and then pulled forwarder to get water. Since the two facilities are close together, Dee watched so I could pull way forward and still have my water hose reach the faucet. That way the fellow behind could start dumping. He did and then he asked us if we had done any fishing. We said not yet. He took us around back of his RV where he had a big cooler. He opened it and it was full of fresh halibut steaks that he had caught in Homer. He graciously gave us five packages and thanked us again for being so considerate. Wow! That fish is wonderful! I keep thinking I will try that trick at another dump station but the opportunity has not arisen Winking smile

Captain Cook State Park is 27 miles north of Kenai, one road in the same road out. Our kind of place. We enjoyed a couple days relaxing there. It is on the Cook Inlet. High tidal swings, forests and lakes made it a pretty place to explore. And we almost had it to ourselves.

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A couple of friends I met on the beach

Our campsite at Discovery Campground, Captain Cook SP

Interesting tree on trail above the inlet

Jaxon was in one of his rare “posing moods” this day

Seward – Our next stop was this beautiful harbor town on Resurrection Bay, at the southeast corner of the Kenai Peninsula. We camped right on the harbor front where we could watch the boats come and go from the small boat harbor as well as the huge cruise ships that visited Seward. Our daily walks took us into the harbor front where we could see all the boats as well as the charter boats returning with their catches.

Our campsite on Resurrection Bay

The Celebrity Millennium from our front window

144 pound halibut

Nice halibut catch!

Seward has one of the largest small boat harbors in Alaska

A puffin at the Alaskan Sea life Museum. Neat place!

The Exit Glacier, just north of Seward

Dee on hike at the Exit Glacier

Portage Lake and Glacier – As we headed north on the Seward Highway to leave the Kenai Peninsula we turned east to check out the Portage Glacier and the town of Whittier. We had a stayed in a great campground, Williwaw, in the Chugach National Forest. Using this as our base, the first day we took a tour boat up Portage Lake to see the Glacier. The second day we drove to Whittier.