Today we started out slow and just hung out in the AM watching the tide go out and come in and the ships go by. (Yes, folks, life doesn’t get any better than this!).
This afternoon we took a walk a little further on down the Homer Spit. A little history: The Homer Spit is 4.5 miles long and goes out from the Mainland into Kachemak Bay. The prevalent theory is that it is the remains of an ancient glacial moraine. An archeological find revealed that the Spit was used by humans long before written history. Homer has a natural, protected, deep-water harbor for cargo and the bay provides safe anchorage during stormy weather. It has glaciers (coming down from the Harding Ice Field) and mountains rimming the shoreline and active volcanoes looming in the distance (think Mt. Redoubt, which we still haven’t seen due to the cloud cover.)
Here is the small boat harbor:
The Seafarer’s Memorial, dedicated to those who have been lost at sea:
And the Historic Salty Dawg Saloon:
The lighthouse tower was once a water tower and is now an official NOAA marker on marine charts. We just walked thru the Saloon and it was very interesting inside with dollar bills hanging all over the place.
Here is the south side of the Spit (we are camped at the north side):
Check out this sign – :-))
On our way back to the MH, we saw Sharon and John who we met at the Elks in Palmer. I saw them again at the local Safeway later in the afternoon – what a small world.
On Wednesday, they have a local market here so I stopped by and then went to the local bead store – :-)))
We ended the evening with a great campfire and were joined by Pennie and Dave, and Dianne and John (who we met in Ninilchik),
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