{"id":10556,"date":"2023-07-17T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/?p=10556"},"modified":"2023-07-11T12:58:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T19:58:13","slug":"soldatna-kenai-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2023\/07\/17\/soldatna-kenai-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldatna & Kenai City"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We got to our campground early in the afternoon and set up camp.\u00a0 It wasn’t long before it started to rain \"\"<\/a>and the camp roads became a muddy mess very quickly.\u00a0\u00a0 That evening we noticed the water in our Brita pitcher had a brown tint and the water in the toilet looked the \"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>same,\u00a0 It was even more noticeable in the toilet since the porcelain is so bright white.\u00a0\u00a0 Turns out it’s a known thing and was “safe” to drink.\u00a0 Hopefully…<\/p>\n

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I went out and bought 10 gallons of drinking water and made sure I didn’t fill the fresh tank with that stuff.\u00a0\u00a0 We noticed that a Fantasy Tour group that had pulled in one evening didn’t even connect to the water.\u00a0 They were warned \"\"<\/a>not to by the tour company.\u00a0 It was a fairly expensive campground and they didn’t even tell us about the problem.\u00a0 You can fill up for free at the Fred Meyers in Soldatna with clean City Water.\u00a0 Next time I will know.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We were there the July 4th week, so we drove over to the 4th of July Parade in Kenai City with our chairs.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a pretty long parade that had lots of things not seen in other\"\"<\/a> 4th parades in my past, specifically, tow trucks and race cars and even small children in go carts.\u00a0\u00a0 The one thing we missed was marching bands. There was not even one.\u00a0 I guess that’s what happens when music class is cut from school curriculum’s.\u00a0 At least the Shriner’s were there in their odd little cars.\u00a0\u00a0 Hard to imagine a 4th of July Parade without the Fez’s.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>One afternoon we decided to take a drive to the beach, it was almost sunny and a bit cold but we braved it anyway.\u00a0 Figured it might take an act of god to get us out of the car.\u00a0\u00a0 We headed south on Kalifornsky Beach road.\u00a0 We went past Kalifornsky Beach and all the way down to Kasilof Beach Dipnetting fish camp.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a couple days before Dipnetting season but there were hundreds of cars, tents and trailers lining the road down to the beach.\u00a0\u00a0 We drove all the way down, to a spot that I figured was far enough as after that it looked like loose beach sand.\u00a0 Got turned around and headed back toward Kenai City.\u00a0\u00a0 Along the route Kathy spotted 3 moose along the tree line near the road and I was able to slow down and she got a few pictures.\u00a0 I was one cow moose and two baby moose.\u00a0\u00a0 Then about 10 minutes further up the road there was a very large bull moose just a foot off the road, by the time I saw him i was concerned he might jump in front of us.\u00a0\u00a0 He didn’t, but I looked back and he was meandering across the highway behind us.\u00a0 Yikes.\u00a0 He had to be 9-10 feet tall.\u00a0 Having that coming thru your car windshield could ruin a lot more that just your day.<\/p>\n

It’s been so cold and rainy, Kathy had to go to the sporting goods store and buy long underwear, socks, and a better jacket!\u00a0 Now the sun should come out after spending the money!\u00a0 We hope \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The last evening in town we checked out St. Elias Brewery and had some wonderful pizzas!\u00a0 And of course the beer was fantastic too.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the 4th parade pics..<\/p>\n

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We got to our campground early in the afternoon and set up camp.\u00a0 It wasn’t long before it started to rain and the camp roads became a muddy mess very quickly.\u00a0\u00a0 That evening we noticed the water in our Brita pitcher had a brown tint and the water in the toilet looked the same,\u00a0 It … <\/p>\n

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