Wednesday, June 16, 2010, we left the Moose Lodge at Anchorage and moved south to Homer. What a beautiful trip!—and what trips around Alaska aren’t beautiful. As we left Anchorage we traveled around Turnagain Arm where the mountains rise up from the sea.
The mountains remain snow covered in most areas. Leaving this area we stopped at the Visitor’s Center at Portage Glacier.
After watching a film about glaciers and looking at the exhibits we moved on traveling along rivers- Kenai, Russian- that are colored a milky turquoise from the glacial silt.
Just prior to entering Homer we stopped at a turnout to see a view of the area and the snow-covered mountains surrounding the water.
It was a rainy raw day. We had planned to dry camp on the Homer Spit
but decided because of the raw weather to stay at a campground with hook-ups. So we stayed at Ocean View campground.
Thursday, June 17, 2010, Tom and Larry got up early and went halibut fishing on a 6-pack boat. Instead of 6 on the boat there were just Tom, Larry and one other fisherman along with the boat captain.
Joanne and I had planned to go out for breakfast. As Joanne was taking Sadie out the door to the 5th wheel was shut and automatically locked- Joanne and Sadie were locked out. We tried various keys to open the lock to no avail so we put Sadie in our motorhome with Travis and the Joanne and I went out for breakfast and stopped at a few shops. Larry and Tom returned with a bag apiece of halibut- 8 filets. So our freezers are full of halibut. Later we drove out a easterly road that rose high and overlooked the Homer area, another beautiful area, and glaciers across the bay were seen.
We then went down to the spit for dinner. We saw several sea otters and seals in the water. The weather has been a little of everything- clouds, sunshine, some showers and temperatures in the 50’s. It is a cool summer for us.
