Day 39 Palmer to Soldolna

We left Palmer headed for the Kenai Peninsula. First we go south 45mi. Of course there is only one road. It goes through the middle of downtown Anchorage.

South side of Anchorage is a blow-up golf facility, I think a driving range. They have paint it to blend with the mountains.

Then comes the Turnagain Arm of the Cook Inlet, where we turn East for 45mi.

Just south of Anchorage, the Seward Highway hugs the dramatic shorelines of Turnagain Arm, arguably one of the most beautiful stretches of highway in America. Chugach State Park's 3000-foot mountains just up on your left. On the right, the sprawling, sometimes four-mile-wide flats of Turnagain Arm seem to stretch like a plain to the opposite shores of Cook Inlet, where mammoth sloping mountains abruptly stop their flat expanse. Each turn reveals another scenic wonder.

Heidi was wondering "what the hell is She thinking....this ain't no dog walk"

Then at the East end, we came upon the Portage Glacier. There we turned back South for 40mi.  (click on the pic to enlarge and hopefully you can see the blue of the ice)

The road South took us into the mountains.

A bladder break .

Then we turn back West for 65mi.

Fishing on the Russian River.

Rafting on the Russian River.

And we landed in Soldotna.

Tomorrow we are going to do something else.