We got up and got moving so we could buy some Halibut and King Crab Legs from the local fish monger. But on the way we went past the greenhouse. Have we told you about the flowers?
Having accomplished our mission we loaded up and moved an hour down the road to the RV park we found yesterday. The park itself is not much to look at but the view.....
We set up camp
and were awe inspired by Mt. Redoubt
there was a stream where we saw the Salmon running
a small village behind our rigs on the other side of the stream
an abandoned restuarant that Pam and Gail thought they could make a go of
but Jerry and Lon thought Mt. Redoubt was a little too close given it's action in 1989
A marina at the end and at the end of the season
The owners scheduled a little entertainment for us
tearing down the old motel to make way for 3 more RV sights
Jerry and Lon were bummed they wouldn't let them "play" with the big Tonka Toy.
Pam wanted steak for dinner so Lon did the grilling, Pam and Gail the rest of the cooking and Jerry supervised which is what you do when you can't do nothing else
Then we settled in to watch the sunset over the volcano, Mount Redoubt, or Redoubt Volcano, an active stratovolcano in the largely volcanic Aleutian Range of the U.S. state of Alaska. Located in the Chigmit Mountains (a subrange of the Aleutians), the mountain is just west of Cook Inlet, in the Kenai Peninsula Borough about 180 km (110 mi) southwest of Anchorage. Mount Redoubt towers 9,000 feet (2,700 m) above the surrounding valleys to the north, south, and southeast in little over 5 miles (8 km); it is also the third highest within the range, with nearby Mount Torbert, at 11,413 feet, being the highest and Mount Spurrat 11,070 feet being the second highest.
Active for millennia, Mount Redoubt has erupted five times since 1900: in 1902, 1922, 1966, 1989 and 2009. The eruption in 1989 spewed volcanic ash to a height of 45,000 ft (14,000 m) and caught KLM Flight 867, a Boeing 747 aircraft, in its plume (the flight landed safely at Anchorage). The ash blanketed an area of about 7,700 sq mi (20,000 km2).
We made a fire (we not including Jerry who again supervised)
Our hosts came down and joined us for a glass of vino
After several glasses we watched the moon come up over the village
Tomorrow, clamming!!
