A little rain, finally

It has been very dry, the weather man has been saying for weeks that it was going to rain.  The law of averages says they have to be right........sooner or later.  I just thought we were getting light rains but then I met Lowell and Jane, originally from Ohio but have lived in Alaska now for several years.  They use to camp at Eklutna all the time but this was their first time here in the last couple years.  Listen and learn and one of the topics was rain they tell me that Alaska very rarely gets hard rain, thunder or lightening.  Normally it is just a light rain and that is what we have been getting for the past few days.  They were able to offer me some advice on some short canoe/kayak trips on the Kenai Peninsula which will be one of my overnighters  here in the future.

Later that night while chatting with my sister from Texas on FB I noticed the clouds were settling in at about tree top level.  The view from my window I can normally see a part of Twin Peaks which I hiked a shortly after I arrived here. The clouds were very cool looking so I thought I would go down to the lake to see what kind of picture I could get.

 This picture was taken on May 15th and not a very good picture but it shows the height of the mountains.

This picture was taken at midnight last night.  You know as I look at these I can see that neither one of these pictures really captured the moment.  I think I need to work more on my photography skills a bit.







Anyways the rain continues today, I just came back from a walk around the campground.  A nice QUIET campground I might add, maybe 10 campers here now.  Tonight was the first time I had to put my rain jacket on but it was still a very pleasant walk and my pant legs never did get wet.