We celebrated the 4th of July in Kenai, a little town known mostly for great salmon fishing. There were no fireworks, it never gets dark enough. No ball games or amateur stock car races, although they do have both in the area frequently. But they did have a parade and a craft fair…….. We’d already seen the crafts at the farmer’s market two days before. Misnamed because there was only one vegetable stand, the others were all crafts.
However, the parade drew a lot of people and clogged the main highway for 90 minutes (since the highway is also main street, the parade route). They sure do have a lot of city owned trucks, and they were all in the parade. Here’s a picture of the most interesting thing at the parade. Yep, that’s a guy running his radio controlled car in the parade route. He entertained the crowd for 30 minutes before the parade and until the cops stopped him after it started. After that the parade got kind of boring.
We moved on to Seward on the sixth and went looking for salmon jumping the waterfalls. I swear, I took 20 pictures trying to catch one in the air and didn’t get a single one that has an airborne salmon in it. So, you’ll just have to settle for this picture of two salmon in the queue waiting for their turn to go for the jump. Salmon seem to be very polite, and each waits his turn. Sometimes they get their signals crossed and they crash into each other, but would believe a guy who can’t even get one picture…
This is downtown Seward. Seward sits on Resurrection Bay and water is only a couple of streets to right in this picture. This area is about one mile South of the commercial harbor and cruise ship docks.
This is Exit Glacier and it is currently about 3 miles long. It has been as much as 8 miles longer (long, long ago) and was 3 miles longer 200 years ago. Many glaciers are receding (melting faster than winter snows can replenish them) because of climate changes (global warming or just a cycle?).
This is a bonus picture. I really liked the view and tried to capture it. It was much better in person, but I tried to convey it as well as I could. A large cloud bank had encircled these two peaks and the sun was shinning on the whole scene quite nicely.
However, the parade drew a lot of people and clogged the main highway for 90 minutes (since the highway is also main street, the parade route). They sure do have a lot of city owned trucks, and they were all in the parade. Here’s a picture of the most interesting thing at the parade. Yep, that’s a guy running his radio controlled car in the parade route. He entertained the crowd for 30 minutes before the parade and until the cops stopped him after it started. After that the parade got kind of boring.
We moved on to Seward on the sixth and went looking for salmon jumping the waterfalls. I swear, I took 20 pictures trying to catch one in the air and didn’t get a single one that has an airborne salmon in it. So, you’ll just have to settle for this picture of two salmon in the queue waiting for their turn to go for the jump. Salmon seem to be very polite, and each waits his turn. Sometimes they get their signals crossed and they crash into each other, but would believe a guy who can’t even get one picture…
This is downtown Seward. Seward sits on Resurrection Bay and water is only a couple of streets to right in this picture. This area is about one mile South of the commercial harbor and cruise ship docks.
This is Exit Glacier and it is currently about 3 miles long. It has been as much as 8 miles longer (long, long ago) and was 3 miles longer 200 years ago. Many glaciers are receding (melting faster than winter snows can replenish them) because of climate changes (global warming or just a cycle?).
This is a bonus picture. I really liked the view and tried to capture it. It was much better in person, but I tried to convey it as well as I could. A large cloud bank had encircled these two peaks and the sun was shinning on the whole scene quite nicely.
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