Revelation!!
The coach is white, with pretty black and grey stripes!!
The yellow peril is yellow!!
We left our campsite in Sterling and proceeded in a westerly direction, to the town of Soldotna.
On the way, we washed the coach, and the car, and dust, grime, rocks and crap from 44 days disappeared down the plughole!
This Alaska dust gets everywhere. We had all the vents in the car closed, and still it got places we didn’t know existed.
Afterwards, we went to Fred Meyers parking lot.
This store is famous for being RV friendly, even having water and a dump. RVers can stay here for up to 5 days, free, and then have to disappear for 24 hours, before they can come back for another four free days. Coupled with the Saturday shoppers, the place was a zoo.
So we did our grocery shopping and vamoosed!
We drove the fantastic distance of 45 miles to our new campground, Scenic View, near the little town of Ninilchik, and we have a magnificent view across the Cooke Inlet, to the mountains on the west side, including the active volcano Mount Redoubt. We are parked at the bottom of the hill, with an uninterrupted view of the ocean, the fishermen’s boats and the bald eagles flying by. There are only 27 sites here, with a big communal log fire in the middle where everyone congregates and chews the fat. Wonderful.
We chatted with the owner, and he showed us the rest of his property, adjacent to and up the hill from the campsite. An even better view, if that’s possible, over the Inlet.
While we were sitting at the campfire, chilling, and chatting, fortified by some more fine ale from Kassik’s Brewery, we watched as some bald eagles pirouetted over us, so calm and serene. Absolute heaven.
Then Bob the owner told us that there is only about a 90 day frost free period up here, and when all the tourists have gone it’s pretty bleak!!
