July 26, 2012

7/26/12 HOMER, AK

We arrived in Homer a few days ago and got a pretty good camp site with full hook ups.  We have a nice view of the ocean out our back window, although there are a few campers back there that are right on the water.  But those sites don’t have hook ups.  This place clears out by noon and fills up again in the evening.  The weather hasn’t been as rainy as previously forecasted.  The first few days were heavy overcast, no sun.  Yesterday was absolutely beautiful blue skies and warm.  The first day I’ve been able to take off my jacket in 2 months.  It must have been 70 degrees.  We took a boat ride/ferry over to the small community of Soldovia just across the bay from us.  It’s 1.5 hours by boat.  We spent 3 hours walking this quaint little town, saw an old Russian church from the 1800’s and had lunch at an outdoor café overlooking the ocean before catching the ferry back to Homer.  By the time we got back it was still sunny but windy, and that wind was cold.  Too cold to sit outside.   Norm and I are really getting tired of this cold weather.  We want to go somewhere about 10 degrees warmer. 

The other day we were walking around the harbor exploring.   We took a long way around, on the other side there is commercial stuff going on and we were the only ones there with the exception of a few workers.  We walked right up to an Eagle perched on some old steel piling. We watched him for the longest time and took plenty of pictures.  We are not birders by any means but we do enjoy seeing those eagles.  Today we’ll go to the visitor’s centers to find out about hikes in the area.  There’s national forest not far from here I would like to see. 

We got so close to this Eagle.

Flying off

A shop on the boardwalk.


 


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