Kenai, Alaska

July 13th, we traveled to Kenai. It rained all day. We stayed in the Beluga Lookout Lodge & RV Park, where there was barely enough room to extend our slides.




However, the park has a nice clean building with a gift shop, shower rooms, and laundry facilities. That's where Sue met ten-year-old Collin, a fellow book-lover.


We loved this bench, with its hand-carved momma and baby beluga whale design.


These are the biggest petunia baskets we've ever seen!




A neat picnic table, with all-around seating:


The RV park sits on a bluff overlooking Cook Inlet, where hundreds of men and a few women and children were fishing, most with huge dip nets.




The second Russian settlement in Alaska occured in what is now Kenai.

The Holy Assumption of the Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox Church is still used by the congregation and is a National Landmark.










The rectory?


Oskolkof/Dolchok House, now Veronica's Coffeehouse with beautiful gardens:








Rosa rugosa at Veronica's Coffeehouse:






Saint Nicholas Memorial Chapel:






Barkley's favorite building, with the chapel in the right background: