It is the middle of August, the summer is speeding by and it is time to head to the Kenai Peninsula. South from Anchorage on the Seward Highway the first big turnout you come to is the Turnagain Arm where tides change with vociferous speed and volume with water flowing in fast enough to create a 6 foot high wall of water that travels faster than you can run. Tides can be as high as 40 feet which is significantly higher than anywhere else in the United States. We stopped mid-tide and just observed the incredible passage that is part of Captain Cook Inlet.
We headed to Seward in the hopes of catching up with a friend and just narrowly missed him. No worries, we enjoyed many recommendations and quickly found accommodation at the waterfront park in Seward where the city has installed 100s of campsites. Yes, we were cheek-to-cheek with other RVs but it was part of the experience of enjoying the enormous beauty of Ressurection Bay and the surrounding Mountains, Glaciers and sea life.
We headed up the Park Road to Kenai Fjords National Park and found free dispersed camping along the gravel bars of Resurrection River. High winds kept us in camp one day and we did not mind at all. We had a couple of spectacular hikes including a mad-dash up to the Harding Icefields and Exit Glacier (dash because we were trying to keep it under 4 hours to get back for Maddie). The wildflowers were spectacular and weather was perfect.
We headed back into Seward for more waterfront camping. We took an amazing 1/2 day boat tour of Kenai Fjords NP and were treated to a stunning array of sea life, remote rock isles and glaciers. This rare sunny day in Seward was still pretty chilly on the water. We powered out to visit the remote Aialik Glacer about 15 miles outside of Seward. Aialik drains from the Harding Icefield and is actively breaking off or calving into Aialik Bay. It is a super powerful experience to see and we were lucky to see several different events and even hold a piece of the ice from this iconic glacier.
The following days were quite rainy but as a 6 year old youngster told us, “Just another day in Alaska.” Maddie and I made an adventure out of finding and photographing as many murals on our rainy forays as we could.
After an excellent visit to the Sea Life Museum, we enjoyed a great dinner at Primrose Provisions and vowed that we will be back.
Oh wow!! What pictures!!! The drift wood at Lowell Point was spectacular. Loved the orcas, sea otter and sea lions, You have seen some amazing places.
I know! I tried to figure out how we could bring a piece of driftwood home with us but we probably would not fit under overpasses if we strapped it to the roof and we are really pretty tight on space otherwise. This was a special place for sure!