July 23-24 - Day 45-46
We continued our journey on down towards the Kenai Peninsula. The drive down through the mountains along the Turnagain Mud Flats was pleasantly scenic even with low clouds.
The Kenai Peninsula is a favorite destination for locals and tourists alike due to its fishing resources.
This time of year when the salmon are running, the Alaskan residents can fish for about three weeks using a dip net. A dip net is about four feet in diameter and has a long handle. The person holding it will wade into the water until they are between waist and chest deep. They let the rim of the net frame rest on the river bottom and wait for the salmon to swim into it on their journey back upstream to spawn. When the fisherperson gets one in his/her net, they drag the net up on the shore then club the fish in the head to kill it before cleaning it. Here is a picture of a guy holding a net.
The fishing is quite crowded and does not look like any fun to me. When it is real busy, the people are standing real close to each other.
Today, is quite overcast, so we are looking at some interesting things in the town of Kenai. On our drive down, we saw a young bull moose standing right on the edge of the road eating, then when we got into the town, we saw a moose cow grazing on landscaping of a shopping center.
OBSERVATIONS (and other unscientific data)
Some of the readers of this blog asked about what brand of car was popular, just cars, not SUV's etc. Well, driving south from Fairbanks, it was pretty obvious. My unscientific random sampling showed that out of 100% in my sampling group, the cars were:
- 40% were various models of Ford
- 30% were various models of Subaru
- 20% were various models of Kia
- 10% were a mix of all others
I'm sure the popularity of the dealer has a lot to do with that.
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