June 24-30

Some of Roger Kovar's pictures.



Ptarmigan



This is how we look going down the road.
That's Roger in front of his rig with us behind.


Now here are some good ones!

Roger viewed and photographed these bears while in Denali.
Now this is nature -upclose and personal.

June 24 -26  Cooper Landing   We went from Anchorage to Cooper Landing.  This is just east of the prime area for fishing for Red Salmon.  If you've seen pictures of fisherpeople lining the bank, this is where that happens. It's amazing.

 A couple photos of scenery along the way --

On the way we got a phone call from Olivia and Fred Harrington from Texas. Olivia has been my internet friend since I met her daughter in Rockport, Texas.  They were in Sterling, AK and wanted to know where we were. Turned out we were about 30 miles apart so they went to the same campground we had planned to stay in.  It was so nice to get acquainted in person.

Also, while we were in the Cooper Landing campground Gloria  from Mesquite, Nevada. I saw her outside with her little 7 month old Maltese (also named Lexie) and we started talking.  She is 80 years old and is traveling alone in her camper all summer. We have become friends and since we are now (June 29-30) camped 15 miles apart we have visited her twice. She is very sharp and is a real hoot.  She is going to be in Homer when we are and wanted to go on an all-day halibut trip.  She and Roger (Jane doesn't fish) are going on the same halibut fishing trip and we'll babysit her Lexie for the day. 

The first morning we were at Cooper Landing Roger got up at 4:00 am and came home with three nice fish.  The next day Gary went with him and they got nothing.  The third morning they were supposed to go again but Gary didn't get up.  Roger went at 4:00 am again and was home with his fish by 5:30 am.

June 27-30  Now we are in Kenai at the Beluga Lookout Campground on the coast of Cook's Inlet. 



Our campground is on this bluff.



 We have a great view across the water to one of Alaska's four active volcanos - Mt. ReDoubt (10,197 ft). It has erupted 5 times since 1900, most recently in March of 2009.





Mt. ReDoubt - 50 miles across from us.

Yesterday we went down to the beach to try our hand at fishing.  No luck!

 

Gracie and I were cold. She's bundled inside my vest.



Fred and Olivia were camped about 15 miles away
and came over for cocktails.

Tomorrow we're heading west to Ninilchik for 4 days - then to Homer for 4 days.  Gary and I are going on an all day fishing trip on July 8.