Aug. 14-15.   We left the Kenai Peninsula by retracing our steps towards Whittier, where we got off the Ferry, then proceeding for another two hours to Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska. We spent a few hours there, taking the one hour Trolley tour and visiting Earthquake Park, a memorial to the 9.6 earthquake that hit Anchorage on Good Friday, 1964.   The park shows where a 30 foot drop in the earth took place, sending some houses out into Cook Inlet and resulting in the death of a number of residents.

We camped at a State Park campground at Eagle River, 12 miles north of Anchorage and spent most of Monday, August 15 on a 7 mile hike up the Eagle River valley in the Chugach State Park, which is shown in the featured picture of this post.  Some of the trails near the river were closed, because of bears pursuing the salmon now coming up the river to spawn.  On a quiet tributary, we were able to watch the salmon ourselves, but taking a picture of them in the water was futile.