Homer small boat harbour, on the spit
We are in Homer Alaska today. This will be as far as we go. We’ve run out of road, and so now we will be heading back. We’ve been on the road now for over five weeks, and we won’t take that long to get back.
It’s getting cold here at nights. When the sun is out its ok but not hot (15 – 18 degrees). At night as the sun goes down it cools off very quickly. I bought a pair of wool fingerless gloves today, as its hard sitting at a picnic table with the computer and writing my blog entries in the evening. My fingers get pretty cold.
It is a partially cloudy day today, and may rain later tonight. We are going to be looking for a new tarp to use as a ground sheet. The one we have seems to be letting water through from the ground, so in the morning the bottom of the tent is wet from condensation.
We drove down the Homer Spit today. It is a large concentration of tourist shops and fishing charters. We went in to nearly every store, but didn’t see much of interest to us. There are some nice carvings, but they are in ivory and whalebone, so we won’t purchase those as we don’t think we could get them through customs at the border.
The city of Homer is spread out all around Katchemak Bay, which is a very large bay off Cook Inlet. We drove east as far as the site of Fritz Creek, not much more than a gas station. There are many names of sites on the map, but most of them would be considered part of the Homer metropolitan area. There must be a good deal of commercial fishing here, as there are a lot of marine places with big fishing boats drydocked for repairs. We bought some fresh halibut for supper tonight. It had just come off the boat.
We will be going back to our camp site at Anchor Point tonight. Then tomorrow we’ll head back toward Anchorage. We would like to be in Prince Rupert sometime for the first week in September. What route we will take to get there isn’t perfectly clear. I suppose if the weather stays nice we might drive by Denali and Fairbanks, but if it’s raining we’ll probably take the Tok cutoff.