KENAI, ALASKA

We arrived in Kenai on Thursday, June 8 and stayed at the Beluga Overlook until Thursday, June 15.  This was an excellent place to park and rest as well as doing a little fishing from shore.

We had met this couple in Canada on our way up, Joyce and Bernie Minarik, who were from Alaska.  They were there, and as soon as we arrived, Joyce hollered at us and invited us over for a shark sandwich.  Bernie had caught the shark while fishing for Halibut,  I fished with Bernie for three days and did not have any luck, but Bernie caught another shark and a halibut.

Bernie

Of course Joyce invited us over for Halibut and it was great.  We returned the favor with a BBQ lunch and a pancake breakfast with Conecuh sausage later in the week.  It was a very restful week.  Every day Eagles would fly into and lite in the trees in front of our coach on the bluff overlooking the mouth of the Kenai river at the Cook Inlet.

Kenai is an old Russian village with buildings that are still standing from the early 1800s when the Russians were there,  The Russian Orthodox Church of Kenai was a beautiful old building built in the 1845.

Russian Orthodox Church

.  It still has an active attendance of 40-50 people.  Victoria,s

Victorias

was a local diner that was very scenic and old, but very well preserved.  While at Kenai, we went to Nikiski and to Soldotna, both about 15 miles from Kenai, but in opposite directions.  Nikiski is much smaller and more industrialised.  I saw one of the largest fertilizer plants in the world at Nikiski.  It also is where several oil storage facilities are located.  At  the very end of the highway is Captain Cook State Park.
Soldotna is the major city in the area with everything you would want in the way of shopping.  It was a good week and one that I think Linda and I both needed. 


Beluga Overlook

Joyce & Bernie

Russian Orthodox Sanctury