Saturday, June 26, 2010

This morning Daddy went into the town to pick up the flash/frozen fish he caught yesterday. Now I had to find room in the freezer for the fish. Then we left Seward for Soldotna on the Kenai Penninsula. We stopped to buy propane on the way. A gallon of milk costs $5.98 here! We saw a cow moose with 2 of her calves on our way. I was able to obtain okay pictures of them.
Then we stopped at the Begich, Boggs Visitor Center at Portage Lake to view the Portage Glacier and Byron Glacier. It was raining, windy and cold; so we decide if we had seen one glacier, we've seen them all. How different could they be- they're all frozen ice and rock! Plus the visitor center was closing in 20 minutes. This is also the turnoff for the town of Whittier which is on the other side of the mountain. You have to drive through the 2.5 mile Anton-Anderson Memorial Tunnel that is only one lane and must be shared by cars and trains. So they have a schedule that changes every 15 minutes. At each end of the tunnel are staging areas where you wait for your turn. The fee charged is round trip but also dependent on the vehicle class. For our RV and two car it would cost $35. We decided to wait until the boys are here instead of paying that fee twice. We will go through the tunnel when we take the glacier cruise out of Whittier.
We are staying in the Edgewater RV Park right on the highway. It is a little noisy, but it's the weekend and traffic is heavy. We ate some of the halibut Daddy caught in Seward. On the grill it is awesome!!! Then we went to Dairy Queen to get ice cream. These places are open very late because it never gets dark here. The RV Park is right on the Kenai River. They have wooden steps down to the river and a boardwalk along the river so you can fish from the banks. They even have fish tables to clean the fish and throw the carcass into the river. Tomorrow we will try to fish from here.