Marty caught fish on the Kenai!!

Trip Start Jun 21, 2008
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Trip End Jul 04, 2008


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Where I stayed
Kenai Riverside RV Park
(Cooper Landing hotels)

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Saturday, June 28, 2008

First I want to talk about the wonderful hike we took to the Tolsona mud springs.  It was through swamps and forest but when we arrived at the springs, it was worth it.  After the 1964 Good Friday earthquake, which is one of the worst recorded in U.S. history, there was a large increase of mud flow.  The mud bubbles with gas which is 55.2% methane and comes from coal beds in the Copper River Basin.  It flows all winter and is an important source of water during that time for the wild life.  We saw many tracks of Moose and Bear.  Also, the elevation was 2075' so we had great views of the Wrangell Mountains which were 60 miles away.
On Friday, we made our way down to the Kenai  but bad luck struck us literally.  A rock kicked up from an oncoming car and put a large dent in our window.  When we made it to Anchorage we stopped at 2 auto glass repair shops, but the dent was too big to fix.  This means a whole new windshield will be needed and the cost will be $1000!  That is the deductable on the RV insurance and it looks like there is no way around it.  But our luck changed!  Marty caught 2 Sockeye salmon (locals call them Reds).  There were hundreds of fisher-people in the river catching salmon.  It was very interesting to watch.  As soon as Marty filleted the first one, we ate it sashimi style (raw) with some soy and wasabi.  WOW!  I never ate Salmon so tasty before.  Our campground is quite a joke.  It really is a large gravel parking lot with hook-ups.  But it is convenient to all the hot spots for fishing
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