We are maintaining a “home base” at Kasilof RV Park, but
today we took the rental car and traveled to Homer, about 65 miles south. Homer sits at the end of the Sterling
Highway, with a four-mile spit at the end extending out into Cook Inlet. From Homer, one can see quite a view of the
volcanic mountains across the inlet, part of the Aleutian Chain.
Our first stop was the Alaska Islands and Ocean Visitor Center
which had displays about the area including some about the research being done
in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. It also had a good trail down to the water,
the Beluga Slough Trail, which allowed views of some sandhill cranes and also
provided a nice spot for lunch.
Taking Sterling Highway to its end on the spit, we saw a
number of RV “parks” which were right on the water, but basically parking lots
with campers lined up one next to the other, very close together. The spit is also home to an amazing number of
restaurants, gift shops, and so forth, geared to the many tourists. Parking spaces were at a premium, and along
the road were hundreds of people shopping and browsing along the beach.
On the trip back we stopped in Ninilchik to see a very old
Russian Orthodox Church which had a great panoramic view of the mountains and
the inlet.
The evening was a quiet one: grilled chicken for dinner,
walked the dog, and read. Dan has
scheduled a salmon fishing trip tomorrow, so it was early to bed for both of
us.
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