Lawrence Adventures

Sunday, July 22, 2018

July 22, 2018

Lucky for us we have the opportunity to choose which days we do things. When we arrived in Seward on the 19th, it was cloudy with a little rain. The extended forecast indicated that the Saturday the 21st would be sunny all day. Then clouds and rain for the next 10 days.

The way the valleys are shaped here in Seward, a rain forest environment is created. And every time we come here it is proven a fact.

Because it appeared the 21st was the only foreseeable sunny day, we rushed down to the docks and reserved a Kenai Fjord Tour. We have done this every time we come up here as it gives us an opportunity to see marine wildlife, Glaciers and the Kenai Fjords National Park.

What a great time. The weather started out a little foggy when we left but cleared up nicely. They never let us down. However, we did not get any full breaches this year as we have in the past. Oh well, the Humpbacks at least gave us a little tail.

Horned Puffins

Another Horned Puffin

Holgate Glacier

A little Calfing at Holgate Glacier

Humpback

Some Humpback Tail

Kittiwakes

I guess the one branded is being studied

Are they mad?

Common Murres not Penguins

Friday, July 20, 2018

July 20, 2018

We have wrapped up Homer. Woo Hoo!

We started our salmon fishing in the Fishing Hole, but it got absolutely crazy. I cannot believe how rude people get fishing. We would get out a few hours before high tide, and people would literally push us out of our spots as the tide came in.

After catching around 14 salmon (1 king and 13 silver), we moved over to the beach and began snagging. That was also very productive as we caught 4 more filling our chest freezer to the rim. All of them were bigger than the ones we caught on lures.

On the 19th we moved on to Seward. Our trip over would have been uneventful, but a Pepsi truck ran off the road. When we got to the scene, we were stopped for almost an hour while they tried to pull him out with two tow trucks. After that failed miserably, they finally let us pass. Their trucks dug huge holes in the road so they could only let one lane of traffic pass at a time. Amazing.

We decided to take one of the few nice days forecasted on Saturday to go out on one of the Kenai Fjord Tours. I hope to have a bunch of nice photos to post. However, the internet is really bad here at the campground.

Saturday, July 14, 2018

July 14, 2018

It has been 10 days since my last confession... oh I mean update to the blogspot.

On the 6th we took the Discovery over to Seldovia for a day trip. I am really glad we did this trip as we got to become friends with a couple also staying at Baycrest (Glenn and Diane). Otherwise, there is not a lot to do in Seldovia.

On the 9th, we moved down to the Spit at Heritage RV Park. Our site (Number 5) has got to be the best site in their park. We have views of the Bay and are looking out the windshield at the Fishing Hole.

That leads to what we have done since we moved down here.... Fish, Fish, and then Fish some more. We have been Salmon Fishing at least once a day a few hours before high tide, and Halibut Fishing on the 12th.

I will say, I believe that the Halibut grounds have been over fished. We did get our two fish limit, two under 28 inches (as required), and the other two around 30 inches. There was nothing big out there at all even though we spent most of our time out near the Barren Islands.

On July 13th at 10:54AM, we had a 4.4 earthquake. I guess it was around 18 miles southeast of Seldovia. We thought someone crashed into our motorhome. Wow! Sure glad we did not have a tsunami.

As of today, we have 4 nice salmon (3 Silver and one King), and of course our 4 Halibut. I will say I think the weight of the Salmon exceeds the Halibut so far, but I did not weigh them to verify this.

We plan on fishing for 4 more days before moving on to Seward.

July 4th celebration on the Homer Spit: