Cook Inlet and Mt. Redoubt - July 11, 2010

On Sunday morning I drove to Kenai, the town of that name on the peninsula. It's about 12 miles from Soldatna and less than 20 from the house As we found out, there are no back roads that lead from one place to another. Everybody uses the one road to and from. My goal was the Wal-Mart and their photo service. We have brought greeting cards to mail and I wanted some prints to include with them. After getting the photos I stopped at a table outside where a couple had a collection station for "Boxes for the Boys". I asked them about getting to the shore to have a good view of the inlet and mountains on the other side. The man named a road which was up towards Nikiski, going north. OK. I headed north, didn't see that road but did see one marked, "Inlet View Road". I turned on it and just a little way down came to a small dirt parking area with a sign that said, "no beach access". That meant, not for the faint-hearted. There was a gully that led down the bluff to the beach. I was faint-hearted and stayed on the bluff. Here is the view I saw, that part of the road sign was true.