Sharp's Travels

The sun is shining, what a beautiful day. We went to the office and paid to stay an extra day. We jumped in the truck and went to look up a welder to do more welding on the trailer hitch. We got an appointment set up for Wednesday morning at 9am.

We found the post office and picked up our mail that was sent here and then stopped in to the Visitors Center and picked up information on the area. The gal there recommended the Brown Bus for lunch. We ordered fish and chips and took it back to the 5th wheel to eat.

I prepared my grape salad for the pot luck tonight and made a batch of chocolate chip cookies to give as thank you gifts to Spike, Roger, Johnny & Paulette.

We took the little path that wound down the bank onto the beach. We watched the dip netters pull in their catch in the big nets, then hit them over the head with a bat and throw it into their stash. Each Alaskan could get 25 fish for himself and 10 for each member of their household. Non-Alaskan’s were not allowed to dip net.

We walked back up to the campground and decided to do the walking tour of Old Kenai. We’d hardly begin when we caught a glimpse of an eagle being chased by the seagulls. He’d taken a fish head from them. The eagle landed in a tree by us and we got pictures of him sitting in the tree as well as when he stared to fly away. It’s our closest viewing of an eagle. This one had a wing span of 5 or 6 feet. We continued our tour and Gay had to stop every so often to get pictures of the supply planes flying overhead. It seems like one took off every 15 minutes.

By 5:30pm we went back to the 5th wheel to pick up our salad and head for our good bye pot luck.
Spike told us what to expect of the roads on the way home. He had a wonderful program all lined up. Many laughs were had by all. A few of us are staying an extra day here, but most pull out in the morning.

For pictures of the day see album: Kenai 7-28-08