Homer

Yesterday was Don's birthday and I don't think he will ever forget where he was on this day. We drove to Homer on a perfectly beautiful sunny day. The temperature here has been cooler than we expected, many days in the 60's. We have not worn shorts very often that's for sure. Homer is on the tip of the Kenai Peninsula. We had a birthday lunch of locally caught halibut, and then walked along the Homer Spit, a narrow finger of land jutting into the ocean. Five active volcanoes surround Homer and on a clear day you can sometimes see the whisps of smoke coming from them. This area is part of the Ring of Fire on the Pacific Ocean.
We went to the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies and saw a short film on the Kachemak Bay which has some of the highest tides in the world.
On the way home we visited the Bear Creek Winery. Many Alaskan wines are made with fruit so we tasted about 6 or 7 different wines and bought some to bring home. When we got home we went grocery shopping at Fred Myer's, Alaska's answer to Walmart. Today Don and his Uncle Al are fishing the Kenai River for salmon. They will do that for a couple of days and then we will head back along the peninsula as they have planned a guided fishing day in Cooper's Landing on their search for the elusive Rainbow Trout.