Kenai

Kenai Peninsula is known as Alaska's playground, because it accesses numerous areas for fishing, boating, wildlife seeing, fishing, flightseeing, fishing, and Alaska in it rawest form. Basically a lot of fishing happens in this area, along with an uncensored (meaning in your backyard) view into the ecology of the wildlife in Alaska.

D and I took our obligatory pictures at the sign on the side of the road...while keeping one eye on the camera and another on the treeline for bears. no, really.

breathtaking... K and I walked down the beach to the place where residents were dipnetting. You must be an Alaskan resident of 1 year to dipnet. Basically, residents use giant nets and stand in the Kenai River to catch the "running" Salmon. It tends to be faster than using a fishing pole and you can amass a greater amount of fish in a shorter amount of time. You may catch 15 fish per head of household and 10 fish per each dependant.

People literally camp out on the beach with their families, fishing, filleting, and socializing.

It is is a sight.

To give you an idea of the dip nets...

Just standing in the water, with waders up to their chests,

catchin' fish. How to Dipnet, According to Halley, As Demonstrated by Some Guy on the Beach

(look in the lower right hand side of the following pictures for pictorial demonstrations)

Step 1: Get a fish in your net

Step 2: Pull 'em in from the water

Step 3: Flop the fish out of your net

Step 4: Hit fish in head with rock from beach

Step 5: Fish will fight, hit him againStep 6: Pick fish up by gills and put in coolerThe end.

Cars and tents as far as you can see on the beach. Guess what these kids were grilling on their campfires...salmon? heck no, hotdogs! Bet these Alaskan kiddies are sick of salmon! ha! :)