June 27, 2015

We moved down the coast to Ninilchik Overlook Campground. Ninilchik is an old fishing village with a Russian Orthodox Church. It is perched on a steep bluff above the Ninilchik River with a tiny boat harbor before the river flows out to sea. It looks like it would be challenging to get into or out of the harbor at anything but high tide. Several fishing boats had nets just off shore. Even people along the beach had nets out. I am not sure what they were fishing for but several different salmon are running right now and it is important to catch them before they get very far inland.

Up the coast, people were cleaning fish judging by the audience of sea gulls and eagles they had. The eagles actually got into sparring matches over the fish scraps.