Homer AK 07 19 thru 20 2013

   Homer, Halibut Fishing Capital of the World, is on the southwestern Kenai Peninsula and 226 miles from Anchorage on the Sterling Highway.  You travel alone the Kenai River, Mt. Iliana, Mt. Redoubt and some beautiful scenery.    Homer was established on the north shore of Kachemak Bay in 1895. Kachemak, the Russian name for the bay, means, “high cliffs on the water” or “smoky bay”.   In the early days many of the exposed coal seams were slowly burning from causes unknown and today erosion of these bluffs drops huge fragments of coal on the beaches.  There are an estimated 400,000,000 tons of coal deposit in the area of Homer.  Jutting out for 4.3 miles from Homer is the Homer Spit.  The Spit is a long narrow bar of gravel and the spit sank 4 to 6 feet after the 1964 earthquake.

 

Kenai River has the prettiest turquoise water that I have ever seen.         

Mt Redoubt (the cloud if covering most of the mountain) at 10,197 ft. eruption 1966 & 1989 thru 1990 and then steam plumes 2009 in the spring and summer, shutting down air traffic .      

Mt Spur ft. 11,070       

Mt Iliamna at 10,016 ft.   

Mountain in the Ring of Fire Range

 

  Oil Rig in Cook Inlet (1 of 15)     

 

View of Cook Inlet from road.      

Found cloud on top of hill.      

First view of Kachemak Bay at the beginning of Homer.     

  Cloud on top of  Mt range       

Kachemak Bay and the Kenai Mountains Range from “Homer Hill”.      

Next few pic are of Kenai Mountains Range and their glacier from the road. 

Mountains range view from of RV door at 1:10 am.         

Kachemak Bay from the bluff in Homer.   

Homer Split in Kachemak Bay from the bluff in Homer.  Jack took a halibut charters called “Across Alaska Adventures” from Homer Split.  He caught two halibut (about 20 pounds).     084  Beluga Lake is a landing strip for float planes.      

Beluga Lake is a landing strip for float planes.      

Opening from Kachemak Bay into Cook Inlet.    

A plane taking off from Beluga Lake.     

Portlock Glacier 

Grewingk Glacier, they always make clouds during the afternoon.       

  Land’s End is an oceanfront resort at the tip of Homer Split.  

Close up view of the Seafarer’s Memorial.         

An eagle on Homer Split.        

  This is the store for the boat called, “Time Bandit” from the TV show “The Deadliest Catch”.   The Time Bandit boat, with Co-Captains Jonathan and Andy Hillstrand, is a commercial crabber that has it homeport in Homer.       

Mt Iliana      

Mt Iliana main peak.    

 

Mt Redoubt    

The end of Homer