On our way out of Seward we stopped by the Exit Glacier. This required a walk up a paved path and hiking up a few rocky passages. Black and brown bears are frequently seen in the area, but not by us.
There go Ren, Jessica and Adam now:
One of our views along the way to the glacier:
Our second glacier in two days. Ho-hum.
Did you see that carve out? Ren has a great shot from there that will figure into our Christmas card plans.
The glacier was, get this, cold. I chipped away a few handfuls of clean ice. It tasted like 100,000 year-old water.
Here’s a view from the receding glacier, looking back across the valley. She’s posing:
After the glacier, we backtracked up the peninsula and then turned toward Homer. We stayed on the spit itself, a little strip of land surrounded by water that could be swallowed up by an imaginative breeze. Our rooms are at the very edge of the land, having nicked a part of the town and then driven through this funky little stretch of tourists, hippies and campers. Homer was originally a coal town. Now you can put a tent up on the beach, or stagger around buying local crafts as you wander away from your RV.
We were hungry, and stumbled around looking for food at the wrong time of day in a village where no one wants to make money after 8 p.m. So we had a midday snack of fish and chips. We enjoyed the view, and tried to figure out why this guy carried two pairs of shoes down to the shoreline for no reason.
We were sitting in this little restaurant plotting our next move when we noticed a bald eagle flying by:
And then she came back. And again and again. We realized she was on a hunting pattern, pulling fish from the sea for her eaglets tucked away in a nearby cellphone tower. We stayed and took pictures.
Now, I know a bald eagle personally, but it isn’t every day that I get to see one fly in the wild, so I’m sharing almost every decent shot I have. After another lap or two I resolved to get in the flight path. There is one in here where the eagle is looking right at me.
No doubt she’s thinking “If I were big enough, I’d eat you.”
