{"id":4019,"date":"2014-09-04T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/?p=4019"},"modified":"2014-09-02T15:59:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T19:59:30","slug":"kenai-peninsula-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/kenai-peninsula-1\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Kenai Peninsula (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some better weather taking shape South, VivaLaVida has gone the way of the Kenai Peninsula, South of Anchorage.
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\n1. Sunrise at our boondocking site near Turnagain Pass.
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\n2. I enjoy the morning light…
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\n3. A Fireweed.
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\n4. The mist rises…
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\n5. … and the sun floods our camp.
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\n6. On the road to Seward, a small lake nestled in a valley.
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\n7. Returning from a hike to Lost Lake, overlooking the Seward bay and the Gulf of Alaska.
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\n8. It’s already very dark when I saw this forest grouse female…
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\n9. Lichens decorate the trunks in this much wetter forest than in North.
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\n10. The climate is warmer here in the South, there is \u00ab\u00a0only\u00a0\u00bb 0 to -20F in winter because the ocean moderates the polar cold. So are the trees much bigger even if timberline doesn’t exceed about 1,200 feet.
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\n11. Very wet episode. We have still taken a ride to Exit Glacier hidden in the clouds…
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\n12. Since the forecast were better there, we drove to Homer and the next day was sunny. We clearly saw the Iliamna volcano on the other side of Cook Inlet.
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\n13. We sleep on a beach of Kachemak Bay without forgeting to taste the famous Alaskan Halibut, succulent! \ud83d\ude09
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\n14. A shower at sunset graces us with a nice but short rainbow.
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\n15. On the other side of the bay, the low sun shortly colors mountains.
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\n16. Quiet atmosphere as tide is going down.
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\n17. Last rays on glaciers…
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\n18. And to end this update, a panoramic picture of Kachemak bay.
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\nFollowing of our discovery of the Kenai to come soon! \ud83d\ude00
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Some better weather taking shape South, VivaLaVida has gone the way of the Kenai Peninsula, South of Anchorage. \u00a0 \u00a0 1. Sunrise at our boondocking site near Turnagain Pass. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 2. I enjoy the morning light… \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 3. A Fireweed. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 4. The mistRead More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[492],"tags":[1019,512,564,565,566,567],"class_list":["post-4019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska-en","tag-alaska-en","tag-glacier-en","tag-homer-en","tag-kachemak-en","tag-kenai-en","tag-seward-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4030,"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019\/revisions\/4030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}