The first thing we checked out in Homer was the “Spit”, the thin strip of land jutting out into Kachemak Bay which hosts the dock and tourist area of Homer. We saw some smaller halibut (”chicken” halibut) some sport fishermen had just brought in and watching a local guy teaching his daughter to fish land [...]
Next we drove back up to the Sterling Highway from Seward and followed the Kenai River out to Soldatna where bought some delicious taco supplies and headed up North to Captain Cooke State Recreation Area. The IGA where we bought the food also had a small russian food section which fascinated me, and I bought [...]
Our goal today was to tour up along the side of Exit Glacier up to the Harding Icefield, and then hopefully climb up one of the small peaks next to the glacier to get a better view. The temperature was getting up into the 60s in the day with the clear skies and high pressure [...]
