Day 110 – June 28 (Alaska Day 19)– Beach Areas

We did a little sightseeing close to the camper.  First we drove over to the Ninilchik beach and saw several eagles – some were youngsters that didn’t have the white head and tail yet.  It takes about 5 years for the Bald Eagle to acquire the white head and tail.  Until that time it is brown to somewhat spotted white and brown.

Mount Redoubt (volcano)

We drove to the village of Ninilchik – we saw all of the 10 or so homes and businesses that make up the village proper.  Next we drove to the beach at Clam Gulch.  There were lots of people, but no eagles there.  Rick got to have his thrill of driving on the beach.

Then we drove to Anchor Point (the western most point you can drive to on the continent) to an art gallery Chuck told us we needed to see.  The artist is 86-year old Norman Lowell and he met us as we entered the gallery.  He introduced himself and told us to look around.  His paintings are Alaskan landscapes and were beautiful!  He also has some of the work by another artist (Ben Firth) that carves on moose antlers.  They were very beautiful and we stopped at that studio.  The one object we liked was a large moose antler with a Bald Eagle head at the end where it fit to the head.  In the large flat area was a cutout with an eagle in flight carved from antler was attached to the antler.  The price was a little out of reach - $6,500.  So we headed home artless in Alaska.