yesterdays boat excursion to Seldovia Alaska

woke to a drizzly/rain morning....

I know all you lower 48er's are gonna really dislike me for this

it has not gotten above 56 degrees today.

cold, crisp, clean air, just like late fall weather back home in MA!

beautiful!

I took an excursion tour to Seldovia yesterday....

what a gorgeous fishing village!

lots of carving as they have a carving contest every year so

there are many through out the town.

It rained all day but was still a fabulous time walking around

 gull island....check out all the birds there are hundreds of types

birds that nest here

 tufted puffins

 elephant rock...as you go around the rock the elephant

raises his trunk in greeting

 starting to lift his trunk

raised trunk!!!

 visitors center in Seldovia...wish I could have spent more time in here

and sure do want to come back to hike and camp the trails

out of town...beautiful country

 the little micro garden are gorgeous...check on the link to the right

to see all of my photo's of the whole trip...lots of pages

  sure did miss having my hubby to walk and explore so many many places these

last few weeks....can't wait until we sell the dang house an move here

permanently! 

I so want to do the train trips but resisted last year and

this year as I want hubby to be with me to enjoy the trip too. 

We both fell in love with train travel when we did a train trip thru

Sweden and Norway years ago.

well this is about it folks for posting on this trip

I am doing the long haul from Homer to Anchorage tomorrow

then flying home on Wed night.

It takes all day to post one/two blogs here in Alaska even with resizing the photo

with blows!

YES!! love it when something thought lost isn't

well today is my last day here in Homer

bummer...I sure am going to miss Faith and Fat Freddie!

They have opened their door, embraced me with hugs upon arrival,

given me a place to stay, fed me and

ohhhh the sharing of ideas for house building and other topics of conversation

fabulous!

I even get a "good morning to you" happy dance in the mornings

from Faith!

Now... what I thought was lost ....

Had an incident with my camera's CF card, could not read it so all the photo's

I had taken of the ride down to Homer from Wasilla were virtually lost.

The loss of these photo's really really pissed me off.....why??

Robert and I drove this long haul together way back in 1982

and here we were once again doing the long haul...memories

well I kept looking at the card and figured...what the heck

nothing gained by not trying something with it...so with a sharp instrument

I started by scrapping the plastic around one of the many pin hole that looked damaged,

after several tries...

Eureka! 

magically I could read the card and access the photo's

so these photo's are from the first week of being here in Alaska

Robert's and my drive 7 hour drive down to Homer for fishing!

this is us replacing the poppets on the boat trailer

finally headed out of Wasilla for the long haul to Homer

normally a 6 hour drive but took us longer due to hauling the big boat 

and Rick following in the pick-up with camper

 some of these photo's are blurry or taken through the front windshield

as Robert is driving at about 55 miles per hour~

no time to stop for photo's as we are on the fishing mission...

too many delays already

 Wasilla headed into Anchorage

 Anchorage

 hauling such a big boat thru downtown Anchorage is a pain

glad Robert is use to doing this..yikes!

 Heading down Turnagain Arm

 fuel/snack stop...the pick-up with camper for the

fishing trip

 tide out on Turnagain Arm

ahhh...Homer Spit finally...set up fish camp

Robert and Rick deciding which side of the ramp to launch from

 

 underway with Capt Robert!

 heading out of Homer boat harbor

 all the ugly condo's they built on Homer Spit

 time for Barrett to learn the ropes of piloting the boat to the one of the favorite

fishing areas 17 miles out to sea

 Barrett caught the first Halibut but Rick caught the big one for the day!

 Do the fish dance Rick! do the fish dance so we all can catch a big one too!

fun day fishing....

again click on any photo to enlarge and be sure to click on the photo over to the

right side that is titled "Adventures in Alaska of 2011" for all the photo's taken