Today, we woke to sunshine again. What a nice way to start our day. Rick was off to fish the Kenai just one last time! While the rest of us decided we were staying put and packing up. We have been having so much fun on this journey, but the pull for home is creeping in on us as well. Rick fished all morning and arrive back at camp with the final catch of the trip. Those last salmon put us up to capacity in the freezer too!!! Ya-Hoo!!! What an amazing thing! When he arrived back at camp he found that camp was almost completely broke down (except the high stuff) and we were ready to hit the road. Of course, he still needed to clean the fish, so him and Brady were off to the cleaning station down at the river. After that, we finished up packing and left our lovely campsite behind. It was sad to leave the camp ground, as we dont know how long it will be until we return to this awesome place again. That being said we were on the road. We topped off with fuel and began the journey back to Anchorage. We had planned on stopping back at Eagle River tonight, but once we got there we decided we wanted to keep going (again, that homeward pull was tugging). We headed out on the Glenn Hiaghway, with no particular spot in mind - just getting up the road. We decided to make a quick stop at Fred Meyers in Palmer before getting to far off the grid - as we knew from traveling this highway before that soon services would be few and far between. Before we knew it we were approaching the Matanuska Glacier -- such and amazing view! If you have the opportunity to travel along the Glenn Highway, you cant miss it! Gorgeous. The Matanuska Glacier heads in the Chugach mountains and trends northwest-ward for 27 miles. I guess 18,000 years ago the glacier reached all the way to the Palmer area (some 53 miles away from here). The glacier itself is huge, average width is 2 miles wide. You can just feel the cold air from the ice far off in the distance. It is just awesome. We continued on to Chickaloon, where we found a nice Alaska State Park to call it a night at. There would be no hook-up at this site, so we are running on our wonderful little generator to keep that fish frozen. Once we got to camp and started the set up process, we decided to get a little campfire going. The kids collected fire starter and Brady went to work prepping it all up. Before you knew it we were in business. The camp was fairly deserted, just a few campers that were traveling the highway home themselves. While dinner was cooking, I decided to take Bo on a much needed nightly walk. I was surprised to be greeted by a red fox on our walk. My faithful companion and protector did his job well and we both made it back to camp safe and sound. We are planning for another long travel day tommorow. We will see where the highway takes us....
Last Kenai Salmon of the trip -- I would say we ended on a high note!!
Scenes from Soldotna camp:
Oh yes, the sign:
Matanuska Glacier:
Our campsite tonight:
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