Kenai Peninsula - Homer to Seward

Step into my time machine and travel back with me, won't you? I have to relay the rest of my experience in the Kenai Peninsula. It was only about three weeks ago.

Up in the Chena River Valley, this old guy told me about a lake on the Kenai down an almost unmarked road. He said it was called Tustumena and a great secret place to camp. The road was desolate and very bumpy, but somehow I found it. Or at least the river that fed into it. Turns out you can't drive to Tustumena. I had almost given up. Here's the one old marker the old-timer told me about, a big yellow "T":


This is Johnson Lake nearby:


I gathered that it's kind of a local's secret even though it's a public area. This might be an indication of how the locals feel about the tourist element... a shotgun slug through the info sign:


The locals putting a boat in the water near Tustumena:


I spotted this volcano on the road from Homer. It probably is Mt. Redoubt across the Cook Inlet:




This was my first view of Seward on Resurrection Bay: