Yes...We Have No Belugas... We Have No Belugas Today. (Day 27)

Lazy day today.  We have to stay somewhere not too far from Anchorage because of Bill's dentist appointment on Tuesday.  That's okay, we will take shorter trips to different places and do some site-seeing.  There are lots of little towns on the inlet with some interesting things to see.  Today we stopped in Kenai, which is about 160 miles south of Anchorage.  The campground is called Beluga Outlook which is on Cook's Inlet.  I didn't see any Beluga Whales though.  I talked with a man that said he hasn't seen any of them for two weeks. :-(  "FOILED AGAIN!"  I did see another moose and eagles on the way here though, so I did see some wildlife today.

Closest we got to a Beluga Whale.

Took a neat walk down to the beach.

I checked the shells and rocks along the shoreline.

Bill check out what looked like an old engine to something

lying in the tall grasses.

I think Alaska is just teasing us...

we keep finding only "traces" of that wildlife!

There is still evidence of the Russia culture in Kenai.  In 1791 this area was an important fur trading settlement of Russia.  This  Russian Orthodox Church was built 1895 and served the community then and is still an operating church today.  We met the priest inside and he gave us some very interesting history of the church and how it came to be.  Inside are beautiful paintings and religious books brought from Russia.  The priest said that besides being in Alaska, he served at a Russian Orthodox Church in

 Kenosha, Wisconsin......small world! 

  There are some real nice Visitor Centers in Alaska. 

 Oh...would I like to find one of these!

Nice picnic table at the campground.  It better be in the place they want it because I don't think they can move it!

At the office of our campground...

I'd like to meet the person with the green thumbs!

Think they would miss one so I can hang it on our motor home?