July 8th, 2024 - Travel to Homer

We got our act together this morning, said our "see you laters" and documented it with pictures:

Love this picture of us being silly!:

We filled with great water at P/L and then dumped at the local park and headed south.  Love this mailbox:

It was very foggy so not many pictures cause all we saw was Fog - LOL!:

We made our way to Homer, where the weather did clear up a bit:

Coming up over the pass to Homer - Look at that mountain:

Mountains and Glaciers and Sea - OH MY!:

That piece of land in the middle is known as the "Homer Spit" and that is where we are staying:

Going on the Homer (Downtown) By-Pass and this is the view:

This is the area between the mainland and the Spit - it is mostly a protected Wetland:

On to the Spit:

Where the tide is low:
 

The Homer Spit:

We made our way to the Fishing Hole Campground.  I really wanted a spot where we could face the Kachemak bay.  As we were unhooking the truck, a vehicle left and this is where we are.

Now - a few things..  it is narrow and it is pricy for what we get (but really cheap compared to the other campgrounds on the SPIT).   But the VIEW - OH MY!

There is an app where you can find out what ships are in the bay.  This is Dubai Diamond.  "It is a Crude Oil Tanker built in 2007 (17 years old) and currently sailing under the flag of Marshall Islands."

That is all I could find out.  Very interesting.

The tide is out:

Andy is their newest Harbormaster - LOL!:

After enjoying our view and after lunch, we decided to do a road trip.  The Homer Spit has many hike/walk/bike trails and many of them are lined with blooming lupine:

We decided to drive the East End Road to see what we could:

The Grewingek Glacier:

Lupine Everywhere:

After 20 miles of paved road, it turned to dirt.  We went about a mile and the road went downhill - Really Downhill!

There was two pull offs with cars parked but we continued.  When the foliage got thick, we stopped and I took a walk.

 The picture does not show but it was STEEP and around the bend it was even STEEPER.  Andy stayed back and when I got back...told him "NO WAY!"!

So we went up the road to one of the lookouts.  Meet some great folks there and the views were AWESOME!

Heading back:

Back home, tide was in..  Two pictures.. One with the tide out and one with it in - AMAZING:

The wind picked up so we did not have a campfire...  Bummer, but maybe tomorrow.