Blogs from Alaska, United States, North America - page 216

You wouldn’t think that if you are cruising over water for two days, that you would be busy. But I have been more busy than I could have imagined! It has been a good busy today. We all slept in today, and then went to grab breakfast. After a very quick breakfast, we headed over to the next talk in our conference. It was specifically about God’s sovereignty in election. This has actually been one of the greatest things for me to be learning right now. It’s so easy to slip into the mentality that things get past God, or was God even paying attention to….? This morning in our lesson, I learned that God in His eternal decrees, ORDAINS everything that happens. I learned that the only way that we can work through grief and ... read more

Friday June 6th - Homer John picked us up we helped him get the boat on the car. He has to take is 80 miles to get it fixed. We stayed on the Spit. Went to the Ferry Tours and met Sandy Rollins who had organised our trip on the ferry, enquired about leaving by ferry, but thats not going to work. Had lunch at Coalpoint scallops, oysters and salmon salad, we didnt realise how hungry we were and scoffed with wild glee! Mike bought a knife $13 ( now hes a real Alaskan, I already have an ulu, all Alaskans carry a knife). Walked all the Spit very cold. Met John at Todds water taxi kiosk. He had people to take over the bay to Sadie Cove and also further around, he invited us to ... read more

Saturday 7th June - Homer Up and fishing got to the Anchor River aprox 5.45. Fished but nothing doing for anyone. Drove down to the mouth. Cold. Back to Homer Mike and I had breakfast 9.30 at the Mermaid Cafe then back to bed. Up at 12 ish walked around Homer, John collected us and we went to the river mouth. Fished with floats and salmon eggs, a few caught but not by us, really windy Decided to go up to the slide hole were we normally go. John and Mike got into it, lots of people here. I stayed on the bank with the video - lucky I did. They both were hooking up constantly. Mike caught an approx 24lb king salmon with an 8 weight fly rod. Happy campers! Had a beer with Todd ... read more

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

Hello from Talkeetna (population of 700) We haven't had access to internet for the last 9 days due to being on a train and cruise, well we did have access on the cruise but not for 75 us cents per minute !!! Thanks for your text messages asking for our latest travel blog... We finished our time in Canada by driving from Jasper onto Lake Louise, the famous Lake on all the travel shows. We spent the night at the chateau with a lake view room, the lake was frozen but still beautiful. This has to be one of the most popular destinations in Western Canada and there were bus loads of tourists just turning up to see the lake. Most of the lakes we had visited were frozen which was a bit disappointing but you ... read more