Back to a cloudy day, but at least the winds have dropped off. One last stop at the “Two Sisters” bakery later in the morning on our way out of town. Still a line. I get some sandwiches to go for lunch and dinner.
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| Leaving the Spit |
It’s low tide late morning and lots of people are walking out on the sand flats which extend ½ mile out or more in places.. The tide range here is over 20 feet. There are even some people horseback riding.
Driving north, Anchor Point catches my interest when I discover that it is the farthest west highway (paved road) in North America that connects to the USA highway system. I turn around, we have to check this out. Turns out to be more interesting than I imagined. There is a boat launch of sorts. There are a couple of high wheeled tractors that tow fishing boats on trailers down the beach to the surf to launch. When the fishermen return they call on the VHF radio to the tractor to come out to pick them up. Unfortunately with todays overcast conditions no one is launching. Fortunately some locals explain how this all works or I would've missed it.
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| Tractor boat launch |
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| From the internet |
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Now, every way we go gets us closer to home.
Most western highway in north America, the pavement ends behind us. |
When we first get there this fellow approaches us. I thought he was going to collect a parking fee, but he sheepishly asked if we have some spare toilet paper. His wife used one of the Portalets, before she discovered there was no toilet paper. I guess we have all been there, once. He tried to return the roll and we tell him to leave it in the Portalet for the next person. I have never made so many Assholes happy.
A little further north we make another detour to Ninilchik Beach. Not sure what caught my interest but it was a very interesting stop. There is a small charter fishing fleet here in a protected manmade boat basin. The boats can only come and go at high tide. There are only two boats on the dock, but about 50 Alaskan cars parked, so I assume they all left on there charters early this morning at high tide. There looks to be an old, now closed, canning factory next to the basin.
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| Everyone has gone fishing |
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| No boats going through here for another 6 hours |
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| Can walk across the channel at low tide |
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| From the Internet, what the basin will look like when the boats are in. |
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| During the busy season low tide (Internet) |
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| During the busy season high tide |
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| High tide, Google Earth |
We stop for the night a couple hours later at Peter Lake at a free campground in a recently burned over area. We are parked right on the water. Nice breeze, no bugs. I am beginning to think that all the stories of the masses of mosquitoes in Alaska are to scare us folks from the lower 48 away.
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| Burned out surroundings |
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| Campground view, Peter Lake, 10:30PM, in the evening |
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