Blogs from Homer, Alaska, United States, North America - page 10

Monday 9th June - Homer Did washing, internet and wlked to the Post Office and around downtown Homer. Had soup and bread at the 'Two Sisters' really nice and warmed us up. John picked us up and we did abit of shopping before meeting Lisa, Tayla, Becky, Aurora and Taiga at the condo on the Spit. Had dinner there. Kebabs, nice relaxing evening - back to the Driftwod Inn... read more

Thursday 5th June - Homer We woke up in our warm room at the Driftwood Inn rested, its nice not to have to pack up, all our shoes and clothes are dry. John has been held up, we were meeting at 9.30 but that gives us a chance to catch up. Overcast, warmish dry day. Got the boat from the Spit and took it up to Lisa's parents house (Romona and Todd) checked everthing was working. Down to the boat rampand got her in the water easily considering she is 25.5 foot long. Then Mike noticed one of the engines wasnt spurting water, so we turned the boat around to have a look at it - it was fine. Cruised out to sea, on our wasy to fish for Halibit and salmon. Not for long the ... read more

After walking through the town and driving down to the beach, we left Kenai and headed south for our next stop, Homer. We drove through Kenai Landing and down the shore on the Kalifronsky Beach Road. Once back on the Sterling Highway, we saw cars and trucks and campers on the beach below the bluff we were on. We turned around to check it out. At the entrance to the beach road was a tent city. It looks like these native people live here permanently. A little native village called Ninilchik (pronounced Ni-NILL-chick) is on the side road that leads to the beach. On the beach there were hundreds of people clamming at low tide. Some drive their ATVs onto the mud flats. With the debris that lay around some of the campers, it looks like ... read more

Hooray!! we are officially all on Alaska time. We slept until about 7:30 and after muffins at the B&B headed to Bishop’s beach. We walked along the beach at low tide and met a couple from Texas and a woman from Homer that were watching a pair of Sandhill cranes and their 2 young. We watched them until they took off. We saw a bald eagle in the distance on its nest. We continued on up the beach exploring tide pools until Gabbi called us over. She had found a spongy looking thing in the sand. When she touched it, it got smaller and squirted water out at her. After some more investigation and finding some that had completely opened, we determined that they were anemones. After some more exploring, we hiked back along the beach ... read more

Saturday August 11, 2007 It was really foggy in the morning. We decided to have a catch up day and I could do laundry so the weather didn’t bother us. After lunch we went to the Islands and Ocean Visitor Center; another interactive type of museum on sea life, the saltwater and fresh water around Homer and the Aleutian Islands. Homer is the mainland contact place for the Aleutians. Ferries leave regularly for different islands. We were fortunate to hear a special speaker. A history teacher who lives at Dutch Harbor on Unalaska (one of the Aleutians) wrote a book about the Japanese bombing of Dutch Harbor in WWII. He had a power point presentation and it was very interesting. He was a good speaker and held our attention for one and a half hours. We ... read more