8-11-09: We rode our bikes down the bike path by our camp to the Begich, Boggs Vistior Center in the Portage Valley. The center was built on the remnants of a terminal moraine (the pile of rocks that marks the maximal advance of a glacier) left by Portage Glacier. We had beautiful views of Portage Glacier and various glaciers with blue ice. The visitor center overlooks Portage Lake which had some ice chunks floating in it. We learned about glaciers, the Exxon Valdez oil spill and clean-up, the dangerous mudflats of Turnagain Arm (people can sink into it like quicksand and must be rescued before the tide comes back in), and even about the ice worm that eats algae from glacier surfaces (it's related to the earthworm).
We drove on to Soldatna then to Homer, AK. Homer is a scenic town (or per a bumper sticker "a quaint drinking village with a fishing problem") on southernmost tip of the Kenai Peninsula with a couple of volcanoes in the area.
We drove on to Soldatna then to Homer, AK. Homer is a scenic town (or per a bumper sticker "a quaint drinking village with a fishing problem") on southernmost tip of the Kenai Peninsula with a couple of volcanoes in the area.
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