23 July 2010 Day 39

Seward, AK 23 July

We are signed up to stay in the Seward Water Front Park for 7 days. The park is right at the edge of the bay. Beautiful snow capped mountains surround the town and the bay. Cruise ships dock in the bay on a regular bases. Mt. Marathon is directly in front of us and a vie of the bay is out the back window. The campground has 441 sites. Tomorrow we have a lot of exploring to do.

Out The Back Window

Another Out The Back Window

Mt. Marathon Out The Front

On The Way To Seward

We stayed around Centennial City Park in Soldotna through the 18th of July and received out mail at the Soldotna Post Office general delivery. It took only three days to arrive from Colorado. We fished for Sockeye Salmon several days without any success. On the evening of the 17th we caught our limit of 6 fish on the Kenai River. The next morning on the 18th before we left for Ninilchik I caught 3 more fish in 20 minutes before we left. Wow those reds are fighters. So there is about 25 lbs of salmon in the RV freezer.

Sockeye Salmon

The morning of the 19th we headed out to Ninilchik and the Alaskan Angler RV Resort to catch my halibut charter for the next morning of the 20th.
In the afternoon after we arrived we drove out to the the Russian Orthodox Church near Ninilchik.

Ninilchik Russian Orthodox Church

View from the church front yard.

I caught my charter to go out halibut fishing at about 9:30 in the morning. With the A Fish Hunt charter service. Arthur and Erin were the crew members. The charter took eight of us out about 17 miles and anchored in about 150'-175' of water. The waters were very rough and took about 45 minutes to arrive at the anchor point. The ride out was not all that bad. But, once we got anchored I can tell you without a doubt that I do not have sea legs. Everyone on the boat got their limit of two fish. One halibut was 31 lbs and the rest were around 20 lbs. After getting back in I spoke with several people and all agreed the waters were very rough and other people on other boats had problems also. My advice is to visit your doctor and get something for sea sickness before you think about going out.

Hard Eight

On the 21st we drove down to Homer and drove out to the end of the Home Spit. The Spit had changed a lot since were there in 1997. Condos and other businesses were abundant all the way to the end of the Spit. The Eagle Lady had died in 2009. She was a fixture on the Spit for 30 years.

On the Homer Spit

The 22nd of July we drove back to Soldotna from Ninilchik to the Fred Meyer's parking lot for the night. It is amazing how much shopping you can do when you stay in a parking lot. I think Fred knows that.