|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Virtual Guidebook to
The Kenai Peninsula, Alaska |
Russian Orthodox church at Ninilchik.
|
|
Table of Contents
(listed from northwest to southeast)
- Hope, on Turnagain Arm (4)
- Cook Inlet Shore (6)
- Kenai and Soldotna (2)
- Homer and Homer Spit (4)
- Kenai River and Kenai Lake (5)
- Exit Glacier (3)
- Seward Highway (5)
- Seward (8)
- Seward's Sea Life Center (4)
-
|
|
Next Guidebook: Southeastern Alaska
|
|
|
|
- Complete Listing
listed from northwest to southeast
-
- Hope, on Turnagain Arm
- Downtown Hope, one of Alaska's classic small towns.
- Fishing for silver salmon in the creek at Hope.
- Rocky point near Hope on Turnagain Arm.
- A shingle beach above the mudflats of Turnagain Arm, south shore.
- The Kenai Peninsula's Cook Inlet Shore
- Glacial erratic boulders at Discovery Beach on Cook Inlet, Kenai Peninsula.
- Ninilchik village, remnants of Russian America on the Kenai Peninsula.
- Ninilchik from the harbor bar road.
- The Russian Orthodox Church at Ninilchik, on the bluffs above the village.
- The American Legion and Russian Orthodox cemeteries at Ninilchik.
- Anchor Point on the Kenai Peninsula, westernmost point on the North American road system.
- Kenai and Soldotna
- Historic Kenai, churches and cabins.
- Kenai Scout Park, overlooking the mouth of the Kenai River.
- Homer and Homer Spit
- Camping on the beach at the base of Homer Spit.
- Cannery Row excursion and souvenir shops, Homer Spit.
- The small boat harbor at Homer, low tide.
- The Lands End Motel and restaurant on the end of Homer Spit.
- The Kenai River and Kenai Lake
- Boat launch ramp on the Kenai River at Russian River.
- Salmon fishing frenzy at the Russian River ferry on the Kenai River.
- Silver salmon on the banks of the Russian and Kenai Rivers.
- The Kenai River near Cooper Landing.
- The lower end of Kenai Lake.
- The Exit Glacier
- Looking down on the lower part of the Exit Glacier, Kenai Fiords National Park.
- Blue glacial ice at the terminus of the Exit Glacier, near Seward.
- Recessional moraines show the rapid retreat of the Exit Glacier.
- The Seward Highway
- Granite Creek in the Kenai Mountains.
- Avalanche damage on the Seward Highway in the Kenai Mountains.
- Old placer mining sites at Canyon Creek on the Seward Highway.
- Boggy meadows near Summit Lake on the Seward Highway.
- Upper Trail Lake on the Seward Highway.
- Seward
- Harbor Train Station, imaginative re-purposing of Alaska Railroad rolling stock.
- Raingear is an important thing to buy in Seward.
- Camping in the tsunami area on the Seward waterfront.
- Seward's northern waterfront, swept clean by the 1964 tsunami.
- Campgrounds and other temporary uses are all that is allowed in the tsunami zone.
- Fourth Street, the main drag in Seward.
- Ghost forest, reminder of the Good Friday Earthquake that devastated Seward in 1964.
- The rocky beach at Lowell Point, near Seward.
- The Sea Life Center in Seward
- In front of the Alaska Sealife Center in Seward.
- Below-water views of the three big tanks at the sea life center.
- Large tanks at the Alaska Sealife Center hold sea lions, seals, otters, and diving birds.
- The view from the deck at the Alaska Sealife Center.
|
Next Guidebook: Southeastern Alaska
|
|
|
|