Deep Creek Again

Thursday - Friday, July 15-16.  We left Anchor Point and headed 20 miles back up to the Deep Creek State Campground again, where we had such a primo campsite, right on the beach.  Lo and behold, we were able to park in the exact spot again, this time with Dave and Mazie right behind us, also with beachfront camping.  The water was really rough today, but it made for some pretty waves.

Mazie and I made cinammon rolls to take to Tim, as a thank-you for our excellent fishing trip on Saturday, then we drove into Kenai to meet him to get our prescriptions we had mailed to his house.  We ate dinner in Kenai at Louie's again, then headed back to camp with a couple side trips on the way. 
We got to watch them dipnetting for red salmon (Coho) on the Kenai River bridge on the Kenai Spur highway, so we observed that for a while.  They use some huge nets, with long handles.  When the boats go by, some of the people standing chest deep in the river just about lost their balance.  But we did see them net a few fish, from the bank and from a boat.

We spotted one big old moose right beside the road.  When we got back to camp, the waves were really crashing into the beach.  There were a few boats out late, some looked like commercial vessels.  I tried to stay up to take a picture of the sunset over the ocean, but I couldn't stay up that late.  These two photos were taken at 10:20 p.m.,  sunset must have been sometime around 11:30 p.m.

These pictures were taken from the doorsteps of our RV, so you can see that we did have an awesome view.

Friday morning, we still had pretty windy weather, although the sea was a bit calmer.  I picked up some flat rocks to take home for Kaylee to paint.  Joe keeps complaining about the weight of all the rocks I keep collecting, from Brenda, and now for Kaylee.

We found a road for Eric to check out if he ever makes it to Alaska.  This is probably the road he would live on.

Not sure where the road goes but here is what it looks like.

We had to spend some of our maintenance budget money today to replace the two batteries in the RV, so we back to Kenai to the Walmart.  We had hoped there might be some pro rata on our old batteries, but there wasn't so we had to bite the bullet and spend the $200.  But the batteries kept going down when we dry-camped so we needed to get that taken care of.  We had lunch at a Mexican restaurant named Acapulco, which was pretty good.  Then we drove back through Soldotna and another 10 miles to camp at Sterlling, which is where the Moose and the Kenai Rivers come together.  Joe spotted a moose on the way to Kenai but we haven't seen any around Moose River yet, although we are camped at Moose River RV Park, that should certainly count for something!