Homer Spit Campground Homer, Alaska Day 2

Tim slept until almost 10!  Some much needed rest is part of the healing process.

Steroids…breakfast of champions!

We spent our morning exploring.  We had no destination…we were just out to enjoy the ride.  Years ago Tim and I used to go to a bed and breakfast a couple of times a year.  We would get in the car and Tim would want to go for a ride.  Where?? It used to drive me nuts.  I needed to know the plan.  We found a lot of cool stuff though while just driving around…festivals, farmers markets, live music, and I grew to love the freedom of just cruising around without an itinerary.

When we get to a new town, we like to go exploring.

We started out on a scenic road that took us way out of town.  Before long the road was gravel and then it was dirt.  Lots of times when we take these back-roads we get to a place that forces us to turn around…a dead end or a no trespassing sign.  That’s kind of frustrating because you never get to know what is really at the end of the road.  Today the road started like this…

We saw lots of beautiful scenery and some nice views of the glaciers.

The glacier is in the center in the picture below.

My favorite image of the day.  The wildflowers in the foreground with the meadow behind and the black spruce trees…the mountains and the glacier with  the gray windswept clouds…too pretty for a picture!

 

The road got like this…

and took us here!

It was great fun!

In the picture above…notice the blue area in between the mountains.  That is the glacier.

We went back to the RV and packed a lunch and took it to the deep water dock.

These gulls are nesting.  There were hundreds of nesting gulls.  Some have chicks but the mothers were not too keen about my presence there…so I let them be.

We saw a sea otter being tormented by gulls flying over and trying to swipe his lunch… it was amusing to watch.  The otter would get tired of the gulls and dip down underwater to swim a short distance away where they would ambush him again.

We rested for awhile this afternoon and then went out to the fish and chips place for dinner.  Halibut fish and chips is a thing here…so we had to try it.