July 15th

THE WEATHER: It is finally sunny and a cool 62 degrees. The wind was blowing pretty hard today.

THE FISH COUNT: Tuesday’s # was: 24,412 and yesterday’s was 16,904. The count went down due to commercial fishermen that fished in the ocean at the mouth of the Kenai.


We continue to catch fish here on the Kenai. We were out until 1 am this morning. adding another 11 pounds to our total. We are currently at 37 pounds. 13 more to go! Though it has been fun to catch fish, we have put ourselves in the predicament of catching that 50 pounds by the time we leave. It has become somewhat of a burden. We get up achy, and sore in the mornings and need to move slow and stretch so we don’t pull anything! And then it’s gearing up, packing something to eat and drink, and hit the river. We laugh because our “vacation”, at least this week, has turned into more like work!

Today we need to move sites due to someone reserving this site. We will move one row away from the river. So because we have to pack up everything we thought we’d take advantage of being disconnected and go food shopping. Gary was outside pulling together the wet clothes we had put on the line and removing hoses when he suddenly heard a rustle behind him. He turned in just enough time to step out of the way of a young moose that had been spooked by a dog in the next campsite. He ran within inches of Gary and probably would have trampled him if he hadn’t gotten out of the way!! We were told by our neighbors that the mother and 2 babies were seen swimming from the other side of the river to our side. They have been roaming around the campground all morning. Good thing it wasn’t the mother that almost ran Gary down!!