Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Last night after I posted the blog for yesterday, we walked out to the beach.  There were a couple crazy kids running into the water - this water is very cold - so Wayne had to get a picture.  We also saw the eagles again.

 

Today we had a very relaxing day.  We slept in, got up and took our coffee to the beach for a walk.  It was beautiful, the tide was out so we could walk way out onto the beach.  The beach is very different here in that it is all rocks and very few sea shells.  The rocks are all very smooth and seem to be flat or very round.  I have started a collection so when I get home I can fill a jar with my rocks from Alaska.  While we were walking this morning we decided we should just stay a couple extra nights here so we are.  The campground is filling up but still no one in front of us so we still have a great view of the ocean from the camper.  We went to the "Time Bandit" store today.  In case you don't know (which I didn't) the Time Bandit is one of the boats used on the TV show "Deadliest Catch".  We thought maybe it would be docked at Homer Spit but it is apparently a 3 1/2 day trip from here.  We went out onto the Homer Spit and walked around today.  That is as far as you can go here it is officially the "end of the road".  We also realized today that from now on we will be heading home even though it may take us a while to get there.  We are having such a great time but I know it will be good to be home.  Wayne just informed me that so far we have driven 5,383 miles!

Tomorrow we are going to Ninilchik - it is about 35 miles back on the road but there is a old part that we haven't seen and a Russian Orthodox church that we would like to check out.  We took the camper off the truck yesterday so can just drive the truck around.  Didn't take very many pictures today but will post a couple.

The Eagles on the roof top

Crazy kids in the water

Seafarer's Memorial on Homer Spit

Says:  This bell tolls for all the souls set free upon the sea