We broke camp around 9 AM and another family was ready to move in as we moved out! We were only going to go about 47 miles to Soldotna/Kenai City so I drove the Jeep and followed John. The traffic was horrible so we figured something was going on this weekend, we just didn't know what. When we got to the RV park we had picked out we found out why. The second salmon run had started and the next two weeks are when all Alaskans can come to this area with their dip nets and get as many salmon as they need to get them through the winter.
They didn't have any sites available and told us we probably wouldn't find any around this area for at least the next few days. So we made a phone call to an RV park in Homer and headed down here since it was only about 57 miles further down the road. It was a beautiful drive. The further west and south, the fewer trees and the better we could see Cook Inlet and the Aleutian Mountains on the far shore. The two tallest were totally snow capped! Then at Anchor Point we made the turn south into Homer and another beautiful site greeted us. There was Kachemac Bay that empties into the North Pacific and on the far shore of the bay are the Kenai Mountains, also with a lot of snow on them and glaciers dividing the peaks.
What a view from our RV! We hurriedly set up the RV and then got on our bikes to ride out to the Homer Spit -- a narrow spit of land that runs 4 miles out into the bay. At the end is all sorts of shops, fishing expeditions, bear watching tours, fishing boats and restaurants. It was an invigorating ride as the wind, which always blows out there, was at our backs going down and in our face coming back up. 14 miles round trip.
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