Kenai and Soldotna

We spent one week at the small Kenai RV Park, owned by a nice Native couple from Anchorage.  On July 4, they served us deep fried halibut at a pot luck.  Good time for sure.

We visited an active Russian Orthodox Church in Kenai, including an impressive number of religious artifacts.  More churches await us on our trip south on the Peninsula.

This was our first contact with the the remnants of Russian settlements in Alaska, which began in the 18th century.  Russian fur traders enslaved the native populations in Alaska in search of otter skins and other animals.  The Russian Orthodox church arrived later to convert the natives.  Such activities continued until Russia sold Alaska to the USA, at which time the process started again.

What else?  We spent parts of two days with Lu and Larry, our immediate neighbors at Park Sierra.  They live here in the summer.

Saw this very nice moose on the edge of town.

Still can't find my keys!

And then we turned south.