These photos are from our stay in the Anchorage area and the Kenai Peninsula.

The Kenai Penisula is separated from Anchorage by a section of the Cook Inlet called the Turnigan Arm. Anchorage gave us a taste of Alaska big city life, allowing us to grocery shop and do laundry. The Kenai Penisula is a wonderland of mountains, rivers, lakes, seacoasts and marine wildlife. Oh, and lots of Bald Eagles.

Anchorage is known as "The City of Flowers".

The Turnigan Arm

Mike and his friend Smokey

Portage Lake

Dennis at Alyeska Resort, Girdwood

Glacier above our campsite at Williwaw Campground, Portage

Port at Homer

The "Spit" at Homer

Dennis and Sea Otter

Port at Seward

Bald Eagle at our campsite in Seward

The Pinnacles in Resurrection Bay, Seward

Dennis warming up inside on the Resurrection Bay and Kenai Fjords National Park Cruise

Glacier at Portage Lake

Stariski Camground in Anchor Point

Wooly Cranesbill and morning dew

Iliamna Volcano on the Cook Inlet

Bald Eagles at Anchor Point Beach

Kenai Lake

Icebergs in lake at Bear Glacier. 

(Note the size of the icebergs compared to the full sized Spruce trees in the foreground.)

Orcas in Resurrection Bay, Seward

Sea Lions in Resurrection Bay

Sea Otter in  Aialik Bay,  Kenai Fjords National Park

Sea ice in Aialik Bay, Kenai Fjords National Park

Resurrection Bay, Seward

 

We spent the last week in the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska and were very impressed. 

We took entirely too many pictures. So we are dividing this phase of our trip into two posts yet again. However, this time we have decided to emphasize our personal visions. This first post is photos taken by Dennis. The next post will be photos taken by Mike. 

The view across the Cook Inlet from our campsite in Anchor Point looking to the mountains in Lake Clark National Park (about 40 miles west from us).

Swimmers in the Portage Lake near Whittier. This is a glacier fed lake from the Portage Glacier and the water was VERY cold, so the kids all had the good sense to rush back out of the water to dry land. 

Female Bald Eagle keeping an eye on the world. 

Iliamna Volcano. 

Also across Cook Inlet from our campsite in Anchor Point, it rises from the shoreline to an altitude of about 10,000 feet. 

Male Bald Eagle on the beach at Anchor Point. 

Female Bald Eagle flying along the shoreline.

Mike at Kenai Lake, north of Seward, AK.

Sea Otter in Resurrection Bay, Seward, AK.

Mountain Goats on a cliff along Resurrection Bay.

Icebergs in a lake below Bear Glacier, just off of Resurrection Bay.

More scenes from our cruise on Resurrection Bay.

Mike watching for whales.

Puffin

Sea Otters on an ice flow at Aialik Glacier in the Kenai Fjords National Park.

Sea Lions resting on a cliff in the Gulf of Alaska. 

And, returning to Seward from our cruise, more Icebergs in the lake below Bear Glacier.