Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Windy Night On Homer Spit!

Steve here:
I think the cloudy, rainy weather may be on the way out, because the wind blew and rocked our world all night!  The good news is we were like babes in a cradle rocked to sleep.
We went over to The Boardwalk Bakery for some breakfast.  They do an amazing job and the same folks were there as in '09.  Delish!
Someone along the way told us to visit Anchor Point on the way out of Homer.  Amazing!  You look across Cook Inlet at these volcanos - none active right now - that are part of the Ring Of Fire.  A friendly local guy came over to talk with us and explained that fron left to right, the mountains were A.I.R.S.  I'm too lazy to look up A. and S., but I - Iliamna and R - Redoubt are both over 10,000 feet.  They are very pointed - volcano like.
By the way, today marked 5,818 miles from Waterford!
It was interesting in that this trip was so very clear.  In 2009 we drove these same Sterling and Seward highways, but the mountains were obscured by clouds.
At the campground I spoke with a nice man from New Brunswick.  Folks at campgrounds are so friendly!
Took a ride over to Mitch Seavey's "IDIDARIDE" saw some sled dogs, took a ride.  It was fun.  Mitch won the race in 2013, and his son, Dallas won the year before and the last two years.  It was sort of cute.  You know how folks who do a half marathon have the "13.1" stickers and marathoners have "26.2"?  These trucks had "1049 - Iditerod"!!
The last trip today was set up by a park ranger.  He sent us to the Bear Creek Fish Weir.  There were hundreds, thousands, lots -  of Silver Salmon trying to swim up and over the weir.  Even I could have caught one of them!!
Beautiful travel day!

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