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Day 188 / June 27, 2024

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Ember Hutton

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Today we took a day trip as far west as we could go on the Kenai Penninsula without driving into the Cook Inlet. 🌊 The city of Kenai is known as “the best place to Alaska” and it really did have a lot going on.

Across from the mouth of the Kenai River lie four sleeping giants: Mt. Redoubt, Mt. Spurr, Mt. Illiamna and St. Augustine. Just a little reminder that we’re currently hanging out in the “Ring of Fire.” 🌋
Russian explorers and fur traders arrived in Alaska in 1741. One of Kenai’s oldest buildings is this Russian Orthodox Church which dates back to 1895.
Commercial fishing and canneries were an important part of the development of Kenai. This is the original warehouse door from the Columbia Wards Fishery Cannery from 1922.
Captain James Cook sailed up into the Kenai Bay in search of the Northwest Passage. The bay is now named Cook Inlet, go figure. 🤯
Speaking of the Cook Inlet, everyone needed to burn off some energy so we headed there next.
It wasn’t too busy at the beach today. 🤣
Everett left his mark…at least until high tide.
Riggs settled down with a driftwood chew toy after running free on the beach to his heart’s content. He loves being an Alaskan dog!
An US Air Force E-3 Sentry was practicing landing approaches on the nearby runway so we had lots of chances to see it up close as it flew over the beach repeatedly.
Our last stop of the day was the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center.
The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, which covers nearly two million acres, is big – really big.
Another interesting and engaging visitor center that tricked all of us into learning something new. 😉
Two brothers, a rainbow trout and yes – we did eat at the same restaurant two nights in a row! 😋

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Hi! I’m Ember and I love traveling and photography but not so much organizing said adventures and pictures. Chronically blogging in past tense. :)

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