Rain, Wind, Waves, Fish and Swans

The afternoon high tide was at about 5:00 p.m. today so after giving the dogs a short walk we arrived at the fishing spot at about 2:40 and started fishing.  It was raining, windy and 3' waves.  We were able to land 4 salmon and stopped fishing about 5:15.  Total salmon tally is at 22.

We have been watching a pair of swans along the road to/from the dogs walking and fishing area.  We could tell they were nesting and today we were given a sneak peak of the swan family out for a stroll.  It was raining and they were a ways away, but if you look close you can see two of the little ones.  The adults were stirring up the bottom so the little ones could eat.  If we get a better opportunity we will try and get some better photos.

Exit Glacier

Today after we took the dogs for their morning walk we drove around a bit and drove into Exit Glacier that is in Kenai Fjords National Park.  Although we didn't take the hike back to the glacier we did stop and take some pictures.

Just a walk in the park

This is one of the places we have been walking the dogs in Seward and is close to where we have been catching the fish.

While picking up some hardware to fix two sewer pipe mounts on the underside of the trailer I took this photo of the Alaska Railroad passenger train in Seward.

Quick Update

Sorry, no pictures for now, but we wanted to update our blog with the fish count which is now at 18.  Rosalie landed her first self caught fish yesterday and we plan to have it for lunch today.  We fished for about 3 1/2 hours yesterday, starting with the end of the low tide and midway into the high tide.  It was an overcast rainy day, but today has started mostly cloudy, but we are seeing peaks of sun.

We plan to clean the inside of the trailer (house) today and do some odds/ends around home and maybe go fishing for the high tide around 3:30pm this afternoon.

The boys continue to enjoy daily walks and seem to be well behaved waiting in the truck when we go fishing.  The RV Park we are at now got busy late yesterday, but is still not full.  We think the Red Salmon run here will slow down significantly this coming week.

We still haven't seen any Grizzlies, but do see an occasional moose or black bear.

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More Fish Pictures

We didn't fish today, but we took a drive after supper to Bear Lake Road, near our campground. The DNR has a salmon egg collection point here and here are some pictures of salmon we saw there.

Day Off

Today we took a day off from fishing and did some sight seeing, we headed north of Seward to Hope, AK a small village 15 miles north of the Sterling Hwy. on the west side of Cook Inlet.  Hope is at the end of the road and a nice small quaint village.  The Porcupine Campground, which is part of the Chugach National Park is at the very end of the hwy and looked very nice, but for smaller rigs, no hook-ups.  On our way back we took a couple of side roads one lead us through a private gold mining area along a flowing river with beautiful camping spots and scenery.  The other took us 7 miles up and over mountains to a gated area with camping and picnic spots and another mining operation.  The following photos don't do justice to the views, they were magnificent.  Here are the GPS coordinates where we stopped.  60.850712, -149.535202.

A picture of Cook Inlet on our way out

Still stationed near Seward

 Ken snagging in Resurrection Bay 

 Cleaning spoils feed the birds

 Lots of flowers blooming now and more to bloom soon

Another mountain picture

To date we have caught 10 Sockeye (Red) Salmon, Rosalie has got in on the action and landed two of her own:)  Weather today was low 50's and rainy this afternoon.

Fish On!

Today we checked out a couple of places to snag (fish) west of Seward, one place is private and costs $5 per person and is a long walk out to the surf where you fish. The other is east about 2 miles southeast and is open to the public.  I tried my luck at the public place and was lucky enough to hook three and land one fish, the first fish of the trip.  I plan to go back out there this evening just before the high tide.

This is a smaller stream where I cleaned the fish, not where I caught it.

We also saw a intermodal building, something I think you can only see in Alaska.

Then we stopped at an overlook and watched the seiners chasing red salmon.

Note the small dots (people) fishing the surf above and left of the boat.  This is the first place I mentioned where you have to walk out to fish.

Day Two At Seward

We had a goods nights sleep and slept in until 8:00 a.m. jeesh.  After getting things done around the trailer we took a ride and did some errands and recon for camping and fishing as well as picking up some groceries.  Here are some pictures from today.

 Mountains west of Seward near a field where we walk the dogs.

 Rosalie with the Boys

 Mountains across Resurrection Bay from our rig

North end of Resurrection Bay

Seward & Resurrection Bay

Today we packed up and headed south and east to Seward and Resurrection Bay. We found a place to set up in the City RV Park that is right on the bay.  The location is nice, but it is a busy place.  We do have electric and water hook-ups and there is a dump station in the park.  We will see how we like the busyness of the park and may move west of town to Stoney Creek RV Park, where we have reservations beginning the 15th.

 A view of our rig looking north across Resurrection Bay.

 A view from the front of our rig looking South (That's not our rig in the distance)