Moose on the loose

We arrived at Beluga View RV park on the Cook Inlet only to find out that they haven't seen beluga whales there in about 5 years. Oh, well! But we do have a view of Mount Redoubt. Well, sometimes. We wondered about the cloud that seemed to be hanging around the top, and found out later that the volcano is still venting, and that the outer layer is very unstable, and could crumble at any time, producing a lot of ash. We'll keep you posted, cough, cough.

We are ever in search of wildlife and heard that the flats by the mouth of the Kenai River would be a good place to look. This is a Sand Hill Crane. We had seen several of these in Homer, and found a few here too. We saw a couple more eagles, and we do seem to be in the flight pattern of the seagull rookery. Hmm, it is not so pretty on the side of the RV!












We took a ride out to the beach area on
Cook Inlet to see if anyone was catching anything. There was a whole "city" of campers and RV's and anything else that you could fashion for sleeping in. Out in the water there were nets and buoys, rafts and boats. They were catching salmon and really look like they make a family outing of it. It may have been the wrong tide level, because there wasn't much action while we were there.










While we were out looking for fishing, shopping and somewhere interesting for lunch, we drove through a neighborhood and spotted this mom and her two calves. Quite a surprise at 11:30 in the morning!

But we don't do all our searching during the day. We have gotten pretty good at Moose Trolling at Midnight! Don and Marilyn tried it, with success, so we went out after 10:30 one night, and stayed out wandering down side roads, and through neighborhoods looking for wildlife. Most of it is found munching in people's yards! We're getting pretty good at quick turnarounds and doubling back for pictures.

This fellow was not bothered by us at all, and was more interested in the grass near a parking lot.














When we aren't wandering around looking for four legged residents, we are practicing our culinary skills with halibut and salmon. And we are really enjoying it! A little for us, and a little for the freezer. We have also enjoyed the Farmer's market in town. We have a list of all the Alaskan Farmer's Markets and expect to try many of them. We heard there are BIG cabbages in Wasilla.

Jim and Sue