Kenai Edge

The mouth of the Kenai River

The picnic table only has bench seats on the safe side.

Erosion, earthquake or shakey legs...I wasn't getting close to the edge. Nice view from a little out of the way park I found in Old Town Kenai.

Ride of the Century

Chitina Tracks from the Gig Harbor Scene is a sight to behold.

Old Town Bottle

Old Town Talking again.
I have been sworn to secrecy where this old Valdez Brewing & Bottling Company museum piece was dug up out of the mud. Empty it weighs, I'd guess, five pounds. Old Town was self sufficient in more ways a hundred years ago than New Town is today. Manufacturing in Valdez is a thing of the past. I'll venture to say there is not one artisian glass blower in the vicintity.

Sea Shells

These beautiful sea shells came from the white sandy beaches of Australia. Brought back to Alaska for me from my world traveling daughter. I currently have the enlarged closeup picture of these sea shells on my desktop. Very pretty. Makes me want to go to the beach. Its almost time to start hitting low tide at Old Town. Read all about it on Old Town Talking in the archives.

Old Town Talking

In march 1964 a huge earthquake rocked the richter scale and wiped out Old Town Valdez. 33 residents died that Good Friday and most were on the dock and many were children. School was out and the steamship, the Chenega, was in port. The whole dock disappeared and 2 people died on the Chenega from the sudden drop of the contintnental shelf. What was left of the whole town was condemned and moved to a safer site where Valdez still stands to this day. Thats why it looks like a military base instead of old town America.

Now the sewer treatment plant is out there in OldTown along with the Public Radio KCHU towers. Other than that there isn't much else. Unless you think old broken dishes are something worth cleaning up and saving. Nice walk, beautiful sunset and loot to boot!