Eagle River to Russian River USFS Campground on the Kenai Peninsula

We left Eagle River this morning after saying our goodbyes to Ian and were on our way to the Kenai Peninsula.  We traveled through Anchorage and soon the highway was beside the Turnagain Arm for several miles.  It was kind of a cloudy day for any decent photos, but here is one looking out at the water.

The Alaska Railroad is parallel to the highway at this point.

At this point, we’re on the Kenai Peninsula and crossing the Kenai River.  It’s not a very good photo with the glare off the window.

Again, there’s a little bit of glare, but this is still from the bridge crossing the Kenai River looking down at the rafters.

After getting situated in our campsite, we drove around the area.  We wanted to check out the campground we will be staying at in the middle of June for the salmon fishing.  We took a brief tour of the Cooper Landing Museum as seen in the next two photos.

 

Ken spotted some Dall sheep up on the hillside and finally got a chance to try out his new telescopic lens.  This first shot is with our older lens.

And this one was taken with the new lens.  Overall, we saw over 60 Dall sheep in the area between the turnoff for Quartz Creek USFS Campground and Cooper Landing.

Before heading back to the RV, we stopped at the Kenai-Russian River Ferry access point.  The ferry wasn’t in the river yet, so we didn’t get any photos of that.  From there we drove back to camp for the evening.

Tomorrow we will be driving to Kenai where we will be visiting with our niece and her family.

Working on the RV and a Drive Up Eagle River Road

Ken spent a good part of the day working on the RV.  The ladder in the back of the RV was coming loose and he had to get that attached again so that it wouldn’t fall off.  We also had to fill the fresh water tank again as we were running low.  We had a late lunch and drove into town to drop off some mail at the post office and also drove out to see the Eagle River Campground (Chugach State Recreation Site).  On our way back to Ian’s we decided to drive to the end of the road to the Eagle River Nature Center.  There was a moose in the pond as we drove that way, so we watched him for a few minutes.

If you’ve ever heard of Moose Drool beer, this is how it got it’s name.

This is our nephew Ian with Ken.

Jennifer, Summer, and Corey are all running in a race in Anchorage tonight.  It’s called the Skinny Raven Twilight 12K and you can read more about it here:  Skinny Raven Twilight 12K.  We hope they all do well!

Tomorrow we plan to drive to the Russian River USFS Campground and spend a night.  That campground is already full for the expected week of the salmon run, so we’ll be staying at another campground during that time.  However, we will have family staying at this campground and wanted to check it out in advance.  On Sunday we will continue on to Kenai to visit our niece and her family.

Update:  There were over 6000 runners in the race tonight.  Jennifer placed 19th in her class, Summer was 5th in hers, and Corey was 4th in hers.  Congratulations!  Good job.