AK-Kenai Peninsula

I've been using a different blog site, but I have trouble getting the pictures to line up the way I want. I'm sure it's user error, but I thought I would try this out for a while and see if I like it any better.

We recently took a trip to AK w/ a couple from our church, the Jones. We were supposed to go to Kodiak, but the weather turned foul on the island and we couldn't get in. Instead we headed down to the Kenai Peninsula and had a great time. The only bummer (and it was a big one!) is that Ryan had to go home. He was worried about getting back in time for his job, so he went home. The Jones and I had a good time anyway, but it would have been a great time if Ryan could have been there.

We went on a 3 hour river tour and had a great time. I didn't even get motion sick.

I saw my first bear on our river tour.

We took a 2 mile hike to Russian Rive falls in hopes of seeing a bear feeding....not really falls, and no bear, but that's ok.

The bottom of the falls. We could see loads of salmon swimming in the calm area there.

We took a short hike, walk up to Exit Glacier. This is a glacier that's at the end of a 40 mile ice field that sits on the top of a hill. It has glaciers running down all sides of it. Unfortunately it was roped off, so we couldn't touch it, but it was beautiful.

If you look carefully you can see a hole in the glacier right in the middle of the picture. There's a little waterfall that's pouring out. It was pretty cool.

Self explanatory

This is just below the Glacier in the runoff. The chunks of ice were so clear! See below.

I know, I know, it's not filtered....but I didn't get giardia and die, so I figure all the cold must have killed most of the buggies.

This is probably my favorite pic from the trip. It's pretty obvious that this mountain was carved out by a glacier at one time ages and ages ago. We were disappointed that it rained, but really the clouds make this picture.