Kenai Lake is beautiful! We kayaked a couple of days and met some wonderful neighboring campers. Garry is making them some tip-up alerts to show to all of their ice fishing friends. They are hopefully sending us some salmon in return.

Garry fished for salmon on the Russian River (in shorts and sneakers while everyone else was in waders 🙂 ). We didn’t intend to go fishing, but our new friends and camping neighbors invited us along, as they had some extra gear. That’s our new friend, Patty, to the left of Garry!

No fish were caught by our group, but others in the area were catching a few! We also saw a young brown bear (Grizzly) as he came down the river also fishing for salmon! This area is on the Russian River. You park at the Russian River Campground and walk down to the river. (I’m adding this so I don’t forget! We will definitely be back soon!) Brown bears are known to frequent this area in the evening and our new friends have seen several, including momma bears teaching their cubs to fish. How I would have loved to see that! … several bald eagles were waiting for some scraps!

We then moved onto our next stop, Ninilchik, where we also met some awesome neighbor campers, two of whom live in Baker City, Oregon, which is a planned stop our our return trip to see a longtime friend of Garry’s. The campers apparently live right across the way from his sister! Small world.

It was a bit breezy and chilly today as we meandered our way down from Ninilchik to Homer and back for the day.

Below is a view from the End of the World, as they call it, at the end of the Homer Spit, and as far as you can drive south on the Peninsula! You can see the spit in the photo above as you view it from just above Homer along the highway.

…and one of my favorite places to be is the harbor of any fishing town!

Goodnight from the Kenai Peninsula, where its still sunny and its after 9 p.m. P.S. You can also go outside at 2 a.m. and its still light out. No need for a flashlight while camping!