Moose Creek Cabins Fritz Creek

... filtering/treating it) to have lunch (most of our meals required water to re-hydrate and cook) and then replenish our water fully and paddle to the South Grace campsite (per original email itinerary sent to us) where we can camp the night and then head to the next site which is near a water fall where we can again fill-up our water....sounds like a great plan huh???
Well...so this hand drawn map, yeah, well...we saw seals and jelly fish and a ...

... seem to be a pretty cool way to check stuff out - not sure what a water taxi is but I think they said the Yurt was like $65 a night - it is pretty spacious, sleeps 6, has bedding, water, propane, small stove and wood burning oven inside, has a fire pit, clothes line, and I think an out house (they said as Yurts go this one was pretty basic - I think what we had was basic, this looked great to me :- ) but I guess there are other Yurts out there that are different)

... the clam gun. Shoving it into the sand was not too bad, but pulling it out was a real back ache. Most of what we thought were dimples were misses. We did end up with 6 clams—the limit is 60 per person. That tells you how successful we were. It was a nice day in the beach muck even if we didn’t get too many. The advantage of that was we didn’t have many to clean. Before ...

... bottom half. But after dinner, the clouds left for the most part and you could see them in all their glory. We snacked around for lunch with Pooh having the last of our leftover salmon and me with the traditional Indian Ramin Noodles. Now it was time to do a little tour of the town. Of course being Homer, you have to go to the spit. A spit is a geographical term. It is kinda like a peninsula, but made of sand due to the currents of the water. The Homer spit juts out into the ...

... then this girl. she thinks its cute and people adore how bouncy, flirty and flighty she is but in reality the annoyance factor is high but she doesn't pick up on this at all. as one co-worker said to me "she just doesn't pick up on social cues.....she's oblivious". i suppose if you want to live your life in such a fashion then you are more then entitled to do so, i mean wtf why not right? but that person shouldn't be surprised when people wear thin. i suppose ...

... Sam up ( I had told him her name and what she looked like) and they had gone for a beer while waiting for my flight to arrive. I hadn't seen Sam in about 2 years and then only for about 6 hours so it really was kind of like a little reunion which was nice. She hadn't changed all that much really. Still bubbly and talkative (to put it nicely) and as flirtatious as ever. We stayed in anchorage for a few hours doing a couple things that Walt needed to get done ...

... west it appeared to be a fly fisherman's paradise as fishermen were tripping over each other to get a line into the water. Brochures that I picked up later confirmed that this area of the river along Cooper Landing is a prime fly fishing river in Alaska. The boats used by the fishermen had a lot of similarity with the Newfoundland dinghy. Also mixed into this were the continuous bear warnings or notification of entire areas which were closed ...

... of loons that kept diving every time we spied them through the binoculars. There were also several people fishing from the beach next to the ferry dock. One guy caught a couple starfish and then later caught a big halibut, which is a flatfish, and is very popular around here. A sea otter popped it's head up near the fisherman, about 20 feet out from shore, and began to swim on it's back. It dove back under the water after a few seconds and popped up a ...

... Sadly though, we still didn't see any whales. Back at the bed and breakfast, Amy was beginning to feel tired and was starting to get ready for bed. We were told by other houseguests that their was an amazing moonrise the night before, and so with this being our last night in Homer, I wanted to make sure I caught it this time. Amy went to bed, and I went out on the front porch with daylight still illuminating the sky at 10pm to set up my ...

... coast, and Friday drove down to Seward on the Kenai Peninsula. In the afternoon we stopped at the Kenai river for a short float and fish before getting to Seward in time for attending Jeff's rehersal dinner at the Alaska SeaLife Center. Built with money from the Exxon Valdez disaster relief fund it's a great insight into Alaskan sea life and a unique place to have dinner, although I'm sure the diving puffin in the tank beside me was eyeing up the food on ...