Day 32 Homer

When we listen to Rving friends who have made the Alaska trip before us one of the destinations that always comes up as a favorite is Homer and camping on the Homer Spit. The 4^th holiday has made this a very busy place so we drove down from Ninilchik, a 35 mile trip, early enough to choose a site with a great view on the city beach near the base of the Spit. We will be here without hookups for the next three days but that is not really an issue in the Tradewinds. The upside is the view out the windshield and the room we have on each side of us. We have watched kids and eagles playing on the beach in front of us this afternoon and we are not sure who was having more fun!

We drove out to the end of the Spit after we got settled and checked out the mass of boats, cars, and RVs that have gathered in the mile or so out to lands end. The spit is full of shops, restaurants, fishing and cruise charter companies, and a large boat harbor. Homer is known as the halibut capital of the world and everyone seems to be here to make it so.We will have a chance to check out the restaurants and shops tomorrow evening and Wednesday as we are taking a cruise tomorrow morning. Art and Jo Savoy (Mexico) and Lee and Jeanne Faust who we met in Seward last week are meeting us here to take a sightseeing cruise across Kachemak Bay to Soldovia for three hours and will have dinner here on the spit when we return.We drove up on Hillside Drive overlooking the bay and spit this afternoon. The view from up here was breathtaking. Kachemak Bay has 5 glaciers above it that all reach down almost to the water and the spit is a distinctive landmark as it juts out into the bay from the edge of town.

We also checked out a few of the shops in Homer including a wood carver who had made some very humorous statutes of moose, bears, and moosquitos. Jeff was ready to shell out for a little moose for the m/h but got outvoted.We are spending a quiet evening watching the beach and reading.