First of all, you should ignore the date of Monday, August 3 on my post about leaving Soldotna…that was actually a week ago Monday, July 27 (I think). I hardly know what month it is much less what day or date!
JoAnn and Bob Srutka arrived today from Soldotna. After they got set up we all headed to Seward for the afternoon. Sandy and Curtis, a couple that JoAnn and Bob had been traveling with off and on met us there. We all went to see Exit Glacier which is part of the Harding Icefield. Bob and Vicki, Mark and Susan, Curtis and Sandy and Bob and JoAnn.
Bob, Mark and Sue and Bob Srutka went on to the Sea Life Center. JoAnn and I opted to walk around Seward to see the
shops.
Seward is a very small community on the Gulf of Alaska. We learned some things about fish when we wandered to the dock where the fishing boats come in. Got a picture of some people and their guides who had been out fishing for silver salmon. The silvers are just starting to run now. We also saw guides cleaning Ling Cod and Halibut that their clients had caught. 
We checked out prices in the fresh seafood store…king crab is going for $24.00 a pound. I had thought we would be able to get it really cheap up here but no…it is only caught in the winter in the Bering Sea and cooked and frozen immediately.
On the way out of Seward we stopped at a fish weir (I think that is how you spell it). The salmon are still trying to swim upriver to spawn in the lakes. The Fish and Wildlife people have these weirs set up where the fish can be counted by sonar (I think). They use these figures in determining when you can fish and how many you can keep from time to time. It is a miracle any of the salmon ever make it…the odds are so stacked against them. I think Bob or someone told me today that only 1 in every 4 makes it to the spawning grounds. If you look real close you can see one salmon in the air.
Not sure he made it but the next one appears to have done so. Look between the two poles on the right.
We drove into the park we were staying at to see one of the fishing areas. This was the Russian River. Notice the rifle on this young man’s back. I guess he got his limit one way or the other. 
Yesterday, Saturday, 2 more Tiffin coaches pulled into our parking area. The couples were from Florida. We all got together for a potluck dinner last night. It was nice meeting them and it looked like we were having a Tiffin mini-rally in the parking lot.
Mark and Sue and Bob and I left Cooper Landing this morning headed north for Anchorage. We are backtracking a bit but we did not stop in Anchorage on our way to the Kenai. We had to stop and dump our tanks and take on fresh water since we had been boon docking for the past week. We did not get an early start so we decided to have lunch at Sunrise before hitting the road. It is a cute place and again, the flowers are beautiful.
This one is sort of long but I am playing catch up now that I have internet for a few hours at least.
Moving on.
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