7/20/19 - Day 21 - 3,500 miles - Time to Rest

We've travelled just short of 3,500 miles so far. Now that we are at the terminus of our travels, we thought Ninilchik would be a good place to rest a few days. (notice how I snuck in the glacier term?). And, we actually saw a sunset... at 10:55 PM, but it did go down in a glorious ball of flame over the top of Mt. Redoubt.

We settled in to our campsite at Deep Creek Beach a couple days ago and it suits us to a "T". Our camper backs up to the dune grass and beach. The dunes here are only about 10 feet across, unlike those in Washington that are often a quarter mile or more. 
We figured this would be a nice spot to rest with eagles and other sea birds flying overhead, beach cobbles that make an unusual clacking noise when the tide goes out, and a beach with agates and other nifty rocks to gather!

Also, of interest is the launching of fishing boats off the beach. They use tractors to first back a boat into the water (people and gear are already on board), the boats zip off toward the horizon. This photo is of a small boat, but there were larger 30 foot boats too. Then when the boats return, the tractor backs the trailer into the water and they run the boat up onto it. Sometimes there
are 8 or 10 boats waiting to launch or get picked up.

A few days here was a nice change from traveling each day.

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