From Copper Landing and in Homer Spit, Alaska (Post # 26)

July 6-9

We haven't seen the Kenai river look quite like this since we've been here at Grizzly Ridge in Cooper Landing.  Fog coming up off the water when we got up this morning. It changed the look of it entirely, but it's still beautiful and peaceful looking.

It was beginning to clear up a few miles down the road.  

Look at the church sign and then compare it to the church.  Yep, this church is very small, almost like  a play house of sorts.  

 We made a detour to go to Nikiski.  Jacob's next door neighbor in Hubert, NC, moved here.  We came to see where he's building a house.

This is the house he's building right on the lake.

Tom is telling us all about his property and the layout of his house.  Jacob is actually going to come here and rough in the electrical wiring for him the end of July.

 A pretty place to build a house. 

 I wonder if this is Prancer.

No wonder we aren't seeing many moose.  This is just in Kenai--192 moose killed in JULY!

We are on the right road for sure.  Always construction!

We stopped in Ninilchik to see this old Russian church and the old cemetery there.

We are driving through Homer in this picture.  That little strip of land in the middle of the picture is our destination--Homer Spit. This spit at the southern end of the Kenai Peninsula features the longest road into ocean waters in the entire world at only four and a half miles long.

Our views from the RV.

Paul looked up how far away from home we are.  Definitely a long way from home.  

Our "Little House", as I call it is looking good, but it's the dirtiest it's ever been, 

thanks to that long drive on the Alcan.

There are more rocks here than shells, but I keep looking.  Rocks are good treasures, too.  

Grewingk Glacier, one of the eight glaciers on the Kenai Peninsula.

Sunrise out the front window of the RV.  At 4:15 a.m.

Yes, it has turned cold, windy, and rainy.  But we don't mind too much.  It is still a special place.  We haven't unhooked the RV since we've been here.  We've been in walking distance of every where we've wanted to go, mostly the beach, since it is in front of us and behind us.

This is our last day here, and we walked over a mile down a paved walkway to eat at one of the restaurants on the Spit.  It was cloudy and a little rainy, but we had good rain coats so we didn't mind. This is our lunch view.  Our lunch was delicious! 

A view of the harbor.

This is an interesting bench on the harbor boardwalk.  The ends are made to look like mermaids.

Our walk back.  These purple and white flowers are all along this pathway.  Not planted there, just growing wild like on so many of the roads here in Alaska.  Tomorrow we leave here headed back toward Anchorage where we'll stop to do some shopping and then on to Palmer for the night.