The Kenai Peninsula is south of Anchorage and is a wonderful place that is known as Alaska's Playground. Alaskans flock here year around to enjoy the great outdoors and in the Summer the tourist add to the flow. It is less then a 100 miles from Anchorage to the northern part of the peninsula and the drive is beautiful and over good roads!
We skipped Seward on the way down but will definitely spend some time on the way out. (Which is back thru Anchorage or by boat!)
We visited Soldotna first and spent the 4th of July at an RV park in the town of Kenai on a high bluff overlooking the mouth of the Kenai River where it enters Cook Inlet. We arrived in time to watch the town's 4th of July Parade - what a great experience BJ and I have enjoyed nearly every year in a different place since we started full timing!
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| Everybody loves a parade! |
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| The Color Guard leads the way! |
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| The American Legion and VFW always at the forefront |
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| And the big fire trucks |
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| of all kinds! |
The weather was beautiful and we enjoyed walking of the beach about 125 ft below us before we cooked our hamburgers and enjoyed them with the traditional fixings.
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| Notice the snow capped mountains across Cook Inlet! |
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| Not like a FL beach, for sure! |
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| The mouth of the Kenai River! |
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| The RV park on the bluff above the beach! |
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| The family portrait 4 July 2014, Kenai, AK |
However, since there is no night as I described in several posts back there was a real paucity of fireworks displays, even though I did hear Anchorage did have one at 11PM which is well before sunset!
Check out BJ's blog at
The Birding Traveler!
Always at home, no matter where we are!!
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