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| As the eagle flies, Alaska's Tutka Bay Wilderness Lodge is 125 air miles south of Anchorage on the southwestern coast of the Kenai Peninsula adjacent to Kachemak Bay State Park. Our nearest community is Homer, nine water miles away. Tutka Bay, a splendidly rugged fjord, reaches seven miles into the glacier studded Kenai Mountains. These glaciers join one another to form the massive Harding Ice Field, which presses down the other side of the mountains into the Kenai Fjords National Park. |
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Lodge buildings lie nestled
on an isthmus in a secluded scalloped-shaped cove defined by rocky
wave-washed promontories. Sea otters frequently dine at the cove's clam beds
popping up regularly to crack open juicy butter clams. |
| "While the rest of
coastal Alaska gets regular poundings from Pacific rainstorms and surf, the
7-mile long Tutka Bay fjord hides in quiet waters behind the
weather-blocking Kenai Mountains."
-- Outside Magazine's Wilderness Lodge
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Beyond the cove, across Tutka
Bay, lies Kachemak Bay State Park. A trail winds from the beach up the spine
of Grace Ridge to a rocky palisade at 3,000 feet with an expansive view of
Kachemak Bay, Sadie Cove, the Herring Islands, Cook Inlet and volcanoes of
Katmai National Park. |
| From the lodge dining
solarium the view encompasses the islands and inlets of Little Tutka Bay and
sweeps up forested hills to the grand and moody Jakolof Peak, which rises
above Jakolof Bay. Tidal flats just outside the windows reveal the awesome
power of ebbing and flooding Cook Inlet tides, among the most extreme on
earth. |
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