| Since you will have a car you can drive down the highway along the cook inlet and watch the Bora Tide, where the tide changes so fast it creates a tide wave of 6 foot or more. Kinda neat to watch, and people try and surf it as it comes up.
You can also keep driving down toward Kenai and at the mouth of the river watch the whales from shore there. It's also fun to watch people who park on the beach and walk off and loose there car when the tide changes 30+ feet in a few hours.
Halibut fishing is "ok", we went on a private boat but the charters are more about getting a lot of people out to sea than catching halibut.
Salmon fishing is the big thing if you go before the end of August. They call it comat fishing because people stand shoulder to shoulder.
Drive down to Seward for the day and look around, lotta fun. Look up on the net when they have their annual summer race down the mountain. Go to that if it's while you are there and watch people hurl themselves off a mountain and break limbs and legs to win. Plus it's free to watch.
Visit Portage Glacier which is just south of Anchorage and it's either free or cheap to park I can't remember. Exit glacier you can get out and walk out on the glacier and it's free or nearly free on the way down to seward.
Basically just drive and look. Tho there's only a road from Anchorage to Fairbanks, a road from Anchorage down the Kenai penisula which goes to Kenai and Homer (home of the longest spit), and splits and goes to Seward and that's about all the "major roads".
Bring a pair of binocs and look at the Dall Sheep (white) and Mountain Goats (white) in the mountains off the road like Chugach state park, and Caribou, black bears and Eagles everywhere.
As far as bars I don't know much in that area. So many of the young people up there during the summer are FLAT ass broke after getting up there. They work the slime lines (fish cleaning) and sleep in tents. I didn't see a lot of young/hip people who were out partying in bars much. |