Sunday morning, I was up early and went down to the shore.
Out in Resurrection Bay, there were a couple of sea otter playing.
The weather was overcast and a light rain falling.
Rev. 07/08/01
Alaska & beyond - continued 7/8
Seward to Homer
Sunday morning, I was up early and went down to the shore.
Out in Resurrection Bay, there were a couple of sea otter playing.
The weather was overcast and a light rain falling.
I attended church at the Seward UMC in the morning. Found out that the old church (see inset), the one when my dad was the Methodist Minister at Seward from 1925 to 1928, is still standing next door. There was a parsonage attached to it where my brother Chuck was born. The old church was sold to the Lutherans, and they finally sold it to someone who made it into a coffee house and craft center -- really recycled.
The drive from Seward , across and down the Kenai Peninsula was a wet one -- light drizzle opened up into a down pour. Washed some of the mud off the RT. Then the sun came out and the drive down the coast, along Cook Inlet was beautiful.
Across the inlet I could make out the flanks of Iuamina Volcano,
10,016 feet high, but the top was still shrouded in clouds.
Coming on down to Homer, Alaska, I could see the Spit, just a finger of land, sticking way out into the bay. Decided I'd drive out there and see what it looked like, thinking it would be just commercial harbor area. It turned out to be more of a fishing charter area with a lot of RV's parked all over.
At the end of the Spit I found a site for the night -- and
found the Whale's Tail E-mail, a place I could get on to Internet,
get and send my e-mail, and finally update my web page -- all done from the
end of the Homer Spit..
The beach is quite different from beaches at home -- and much cooler. Kids would love it -- rather than sand, it is made up of flat "skipping" stones. They could skip rocks all day long and never run out of stones.
As I wrote this, I set the CB on scan, to repeat scanning all channels, and listened to the fishing fleet chatter -- who was going where, how deep the fish were, halibut, silver salmon, bait they were using, and all the other minutia of fishing. It was interesting.
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