THE DETAILS
THE WEATHER: Today started out sunny for a change! Clear blue skies and a high of 75. By the afternoon it had clouded back over and we were back to where we have been the last week or so.
THE DISTANCE: traveled 80 miles today, but returned to Soldotna
Today we decided to take the RV out for a test drive. We stopped at a couple of stores to pick up some necessary items and the Ford Dealership in town so Gary could talk over the problem of the truck. It seems it’s a mystery to everyone, but their best guess is the same as Gary’s. Either bad gas or water in the gas tank. So after putting some dry gas into the tank, filling it up with fresh gas and adding Techron, we were on our way along the Kenai Spur Hwy. It is a 40 miles drive that comes close to the Cook Inlet. It would have been a prettier drive if we had not had the interruption of oil refineries between the road and the beautiful view but we got some nice shots of the glacier in the Aleutian Mountain Range on the other side of Cook Inlet. This is where Mount Redoubt is located, Alaska’s active volcano. I’m sure Dan will educate us on that particular volcano.
After returning to Soldotna we had dinner and then went to the river for another 3 hours to try and catch some fish. Still no luck. Not many people were catching them yesterday. There is a fish sonar counter that counts all the fish entering the Kenai on a daily basis. I took a picture of this calendar that has been kept for the past 4 years here at the campsite. They update it every day and the numbers are staggering. The daily numbers are in red… today, 7/9 there were 5,978 fish that swam upstream. The second column, in black, is the total to date. There has been 59,081 fish that have entered the Kenai River! Notice on 7/28/2009 there were more than 40,000 in one day! No wonder this is a world renowned fishing river. Can some one tell me why, if there are 5,000 fish in that river WE can not catch even one of ‘em!!
Maybe tomorrow.
Yes, Deb, I put some links about Mt Redoubt for your readers. Amazing photo of it erupting in 1990 too!
ReplyDeleteI also included a couple of links on how to catch salmon in Alaska. One interesting comment in the first one about fly fishing says that Alaska fly fishing is different from any other type of fly fishing, and puts novice Alaska fly fishermen on equal ground with those that consider themselves expert in the "lower 48", since those techniques don't work as well in Alaska.