Homer, AK

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Thursday August 9, 3007 Another sunny clear day and as we traveled down the road we saw even better views of the Volcanoes so we stopped at a roadside pulloff and took more photos. While we were waiting for clouds to pass the peaks we talked with a group of men from Louisiana on a church mission trip and a woman from Poland who was bicycling from Anchorage to Homer.
We stopped at an old Russian fishing village named Ninichek. It was supposed to be photogenic and it was.
Homer is on the “halibut fishing capitol of the world”. It is on the southwestern coast of Alaska on the Kakamak Bay. It has close proximity to the Gulf of Alaska. It’s famous for “the spit”, a long narrow piece of land that juts into the bay.
We knew we wanted to try kayaking and heard this was a good place to do it. We signed up for a tidal pool walk/ hiking/kayaking excursion for Friday. We chose a campground with electricity and a great ocean view (the most expensive of the trip).
We took a scenic drive. There are great views from the hills and we found a good “high” view of the Homer spit. We visited the Pratt Museum, which is well known in Alaska. It’s different, interactive with lots of personal stories of pioneers, fishermen, natives. We really enjoyed the live cam of the bird rookery on Gull Island which is right off Homer spit and the bear cam at McNeil River in Katmai. We watched the BIG brown bears fishing for salmon. It made us really appreciate seeing the sow and cub at Russian River.
After dinner we rode down to the spit. We had heard some negative things about Homer, but the spit just reminded us of a beach town that caters to tourists. There are many of those on the east coast. The atmosphere is not “wilderness” like most of Alaska it’s; ocean-beach and there are lots of people in one place. We stood on the western most point of land in North America that you can drive to.
We thought the area was very scenic.

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Photos

One of the Alaska's Volcanos
We saw 2 volocanos we could see from the Highway. This one is Iliamna which hasn't erupted in hundred's of years. Another one (not pictured erupted in 1989.

The Russian Orthodox Church at Ninilchek
Ninilchek was established by Russians years ago.

Homer Spit
The spit juts out into the inlet and is the fishing hub

Comments

[RSweeney]

Your sunset picture is incredible
Wow... that one's a keeper. Worthy of hanging on the wall for sure!