Greetings fellow travelers. I am finally getting around to writing about our trip to Homer although it happened last Thursday June 14th. We checked out of our hotel in Anchorage and started back down the Kenai Penninsula toward Homer. The road to Homer is AK1 which also takes you most of the way to Seward. We had traveled that road earlier in the week (Monday) when we made our trip to Seward. So a large part of the Homer route was a repeat. Debra showed me a line graph from the SpotWalla app and we laughed at how much we retraced our routes during this trip.
This drive, although half repeat is beautiful. No surprise there. All the drives have been, beautiful, fantastic, spectacular, scenic, awesome, breathtaking and some a bit boring.
The town of Homer was a fun visit. Our first stop was the visitor center
We drove around town snapping some pics and enjoying the town
Homer is also where we reached the end of our northward bound trip, the Land's End. Everything from here on was basically the homeward trip.
But not the end of our exploration of Homer. From here we headed out to what is called the Homer Spit. A small strip of land that has been developed as a fun cruise ship shopping center. We did no shopping or stopping, just snapped a few pics. I have video but again blogger and I aren't speaking to each other re video. I liked the boat boneyard. An interesting story is about a small salmon fishing pond on the spit. Several years ago some entrepreneuring gentlemen stocked the pond with salmon eggs. This pond is NOT on the normal spawning route of salmon. But nature will prevail - the eggs hatched, the baby salmon headed out to the open waters and return each year to their hatching place to spawn - therefore keeping the pond 'stocked' for local fishing. (no pic - sorry)
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| Boat Bone Yard |
After leaving the spit we headed out to find the Kilchers. Check out the next post for that adventure.
Tom and Debra
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