On our way to Homer, AK

July 29, 2015

Leaving our first visit to Anchorage we drive along the Turn Again Arm (which is a narrow channel of water off of the Cook Inlet). This road is the Seward Highway, which we will follow around the 'Arm' and onto the Kenai Peninsula to where it junctions with the Sterling Highway. The Sterling Highway takes us to Homer via the coast line along the Cook Inlet. It was a very pretty drive, in-spite of all the construction along the way.

On the Seward Highway there is a law about having more than 5 vehicles behind you, if you allow this to happen without pulling off into one of the many turnouts to let traffic pass, you can get a huge ticket. So we tried very hard not to let this happen, but not everyone followed this law and we followed behind one guy, driving about 40-45 for about 30 miles before he finally turned off the highway. Phil was ready to strangle him!!

If you can read this, it gives a short blurb about the Seward Highway being awarded the distinction of being an 'All American Road' 

Looking back up the Seward Highway towards Anchorage 

 And down the Turn Again Arm where we haven't traveled yet.

 Glaciers are everywhere in Alaska. I always thought they were just covered in snow year round when I looked at pictures before being here...

 but, they are glaciers

 Don't know if you can see this in the picture, but deep glacier ice is blue.

 When the tide goes out on the 'Arm' it reveals a gray silt like bottom, which could very easily be quick-sand, so walking along the beach is highly discouraged!

 More road construction, and rock slides

This is Jean Lake, along the Sterling Highway, it is glacier run off which is a blue-green color, the picture doesn't do it justice. 

 The Kenai River is also glacier run off. When a glacier river runs into water that isn't glacier in origin, it takes a long while for the two to mix and because of the color of the glacier water it is easy to see the difference. 

Our campground (this is not our rig, in case you were wondering) overlooks the Kachenac Bay. Across the bay are more mountains covered in glaciers. When the sun is shining it is really pretty!! 

 The path to the rocky beach below our campground at low tide.