We docked in Homer this morning at 10
am. We are in the deep water dock at the Homer Spit. The town
itself is about 6 miles away and you can buy a shuttle to town but
the Spit itself will keep us busy for a couple of hours. We won't go
out until after lunch when most of the guests on tours will be off
the ship already. This is another opportunity for a good walk, about
a mile, just like in Icy Strait.
The travel guide on board, Jeanette –
an Anchorage native – says you can't say you have been to Homer
unless you go to the Salty Dog Saloon, so that is one of our stops
for today. Pictures will follow at some point, I promise.
Tonight's movie is The Iron Lady with
Meryl Streep. If we can stay awake until 10pm we will go see it.
I'll let you know if we succeeded. Otto, Inge and Rufus made the
movie, I slept.
We walked over to the Homer Spit and
walked along it. The end of the spit is the end of the Sterling
Highway. There are campgrounds on the spit and lots of RVs. We even
saw tents pitched on the sand. We visited some of the stores that
sell Alaskan made handcrafts and stopped at the Salty Dog Saloon.
The inside of the saloon is plastered with one dollar bills and
people write messages and greetings on them.
It started to rain so we went to the
shuttle bus stop and waited for a bus back to the ship. The captain
said it would be rough on the way down to Kodiak so they would put
out the stabilizers.
Beach camping on the Homer spit - too rough for me!!!
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