Our Last Day in Homer
First on
the agenda for today was laundry. Since
it was a rainy day, the laundry room was a busy place. Lots of people had the same idea. After finishing the laundry, we just relaxed
for a while and then as the rain let up we wandered down onto the spit just to
see what we could see.
We stopped
at Beluga Slough to look for sand hill cranes and found two.
We also
found an eagle sitting on the approach lights to the airport. The sun found a break in the clouds to peak
through a make the water sparkle.
We had
five enjoyable days in Homer. It is a
quiet town, with a bustling fishing area down on the spit. We had fun searching out the eagles, which
are here in large numbers in the winter, but show up individually during the
summer as they are still nesting.
However, we never headed down to the spit that we did not see at least
one eagle. Sometimes they were on the
beach, sometimes they were on the light towers along the boat harbor and
sometimes they we right by the side of the road.
Tomorrow
we will be making our way across the
