{"id":100,"date":"2006-07-10T12:54:28","date_gmt":"2006-07-10T18:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/alaska\/wednesday-752006-denali-to-the-kenai-peninsula\/"},"modified":"2012-08-20T13:13:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T19:13:33","slug":"wednesday-752006-denali-to-the-kenai-peninsula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/alaska\/wednesday-752006-denali-to-the-kenai-peninsula\/","title":{"rendered":"Denali to the Kenai Peninsula"},"content":{"rendered":"

We got up, checked out of our awesome party cabin, and headed back south. We saw a moose crossing the highway with two babies along the way. Traffic sucked in Wasilla, so we got to Anchorage around 1pm.<\/p>\n


\nthe igloo<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

We stopped for food and a memory card for my camera (apparently Denali is photoworthy?), then continued toward the Kenai Peninsula around two.<\/p>\n


\nleaving anchorage: turnagain arm<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

The highway takes you along Turnagain Arm, part of Cook Inlet, then heads south. The landscape changes quickly; it’s all bridges and streams, and mountains covered in pine trees. The rivers were turquoise, and reminded me of Montana.<\/p>\n


\ncanyon creek<\/em><\/p>\n


\nkenai lake<\/em><\/p>\n


\nsideview: kenai peninsula<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

It also became very clear and sunny for the first time since we’d gotten to Alaska! We stopped a few times along the way to look at lakes and mountains, then reached Seward and checked into our hotel around 4pm.<\/p>\n


\nsmall boat harbor, seward<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

One of the very awesome things about Seward is that everything is walking distance. We went down to the harbor and wandered in and out of the shops.<\/p>\n


\ntsunami!<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

There were a bunch of fisherman on the docks, butchering fish. As they removed the heads and innards, they’d drop them through a hole in the pier into a waiting barge. The barge would take them out into Resurrection Bay and dump the guts; it was pretty much the seagulls’ best day ever.<\/p>\n

The only way I could even stand being around the shark heads was by looking at them through the viewfinder. Shudder.<\/p>\n


\na barge full of fish heads and guts<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n


\nseward harbor<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

We went all the way out onto the breakwater, then decided to head into the cute little downtown. I loved Seward immediately.<\/p>\n


\ndowntown seward<\/em><\/p>\n


\npuffin! <\/em><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

As we wandered, my head began to hurt worse and worse. I realized that I was extremely dehydrated, so we stopped into an ice cream shop for water. We decided to go back to the hotel and drive to the store for food, because neither of us felt like dining in another restaurant that night. We got monstrous salads at the Safeway, and had dinner on our beds at 9pm. I was asleep by 10.<\/p>\n


\nmemorial to the kid who created the state flag.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Traffic sucked in Wasilla, so we got to Anchorage around 1pm. the igloo We stopped for food and a memory card for my camera (apparently Denali is photoworthy?), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[16],"tags":[506,76,77,80,56,79],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"geo":{"latitude":60.10416790000000020199877326376736164093017578125,"longitude":-149.442215000000004465618985705077648162841796875,"description":"Seward, AK 99664, USA"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/storage\/2006\/07\/187099969_7857ca20b4_o.jpg?fit=3072%2C2304","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Z5R-1C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":103,"url":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/alaska\/saturday-782006-seward-to-anchorage\/","url_meta":{"origin":100,"position":0},"title":"Hope, Alaska, and Back to Anchorage","author":"Jenni","date":"07.10.2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Saturday morning, there were brand new cruise ships in the harbor. 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