The rain continued over night, but but let up for a while until after breakfast. For breakfast we tried the local reindeer sausage. Hope that doesn’t put me on the “no present” list. There was no real distinguishing flavour, may need to try the reindeer steak to get that.
After breakfast, when the rains came tumbling down again we decided to re-plan our day. Instead of staying in Seward, and spending most of the day in the hotel, we jumped in the car and headed north then west to Soldotna and Kenai. As we got away from Seward the rains lightened and eventually the sun made an appearance although the mountain tops remained shrouded in cloud.
The scenery along the way was great, with very blue silt filled rivers, unfortunately the photos don’t do them justice.
Rusian River
Somehow, in the middle of nowhere a quilt shop jumped out in front of us, so we stopped. After all Lyn hasn’t been in a quilt store for at least 4 days!
We were surprised to discover a Walmart, Home Depot and other big box stores in Kenai. We took the opportunity to replenish our rapidly shrinking gin supply with a bottle of Gilbeys for $12.47! We successfully smuggled booze onto the boat, cleverly disguised!
Disguised Booze
On the way back we took a smaller gravel road and got some (to us at least) typical Alaskan views.
Quintessentially alaska
We also managed a bit of geocaching. As we approached Seward the rain started again, but by around 6PM it had eased off and the evening has been dry. We took a walk around the down-town area where there are a number of murals painted on the walls.
Seward Mural