Homer, AK

August 2, 2010

We left Seward around 3pm and headed for Homer which was about 4 hours away. We passed many rivers, streams, and lakes along the way, and saw several groups of fishermen standing in the middle of the river/stream cast lines.

This picture and the next few pictures were taken at the end of Homer Spit. The Spit was about 5 miles long, the width of the Spit ranged from 200+ yards to maybe about 500 yards. There were stores and RV parks on both sides of the Spit. The Holland Cruise ships also had a stop at Homer.
The "beach" had small round rocks looked like moraine...

Grewingle Glacier distance away...

Our RV Park was at almost the end of Spit. Yi and I took a late night stroll along the shore on the “board-walk”. It was after 11pm but it was light. Most of stores were closed except some restaurants and bars.

Salty Dawg Saloon was a Homer landmark. It was a bar with dollar bills pinned/glued/stuck everywhere...

August 3, 2010

Wet and drizzle all day. The plan of taking a water taxi to Kachemak Bay State park to hike or to China Poot Clamming didn’t seem appealing so we took it easy today. The 3 elders went to the Pratt Museum while Yi, Matt, and I wandered around town.

This is what inside of Salty Dawg Saloon looked like...

We were waiting for mommy to finish window shopping...

Fresh catch and priceless...

This is our RV park, right in front of the bay...

Enjoy fresh/live oysters...

Yi had a dozen of fresh oysters cultivated from the Kachemak Bay then Matt and I went to Homer High School to swim. It only opened one hour for lap swim so he did about 2,500 yard with some fast 200 back intervals.

We spent the night at the high school parking lot, inside RV of course.

August 4, 2010

Matt and I got up at 6:30am for the morning practice at the high school pool. This is his last practice in Alaska. He had total of 6 practices – twice in Fairbanks and in Homer, once in Valdez and in Seward.