CA Traveler wrote:
. . . I sure wouldn't want you to get those perfect pictures while we're around because events like the 1964 earthquake would likely make us history!
I actually wasn't hoping for something as destructive as another Good Friday Earthquake. I wouldn't wish that on anyone! Just a little "burp" from Mt. Spurr or Redoubt like we had the summer of 1992 would do. That only shut down Anchorage International for 3 days to prevent the big jets from sucking in all that ash.
We couldn't see anything today from Homer, but we had a great lunch at Two Sisters Bakery. Visited a few art galleries and the spit.
The Alaska Islands and Ocean Visitors Center had some interesting displays and videos on places I have worked and on their eradication efforts on the foxes that I mentioned in one of my early blog entries. Also some small, but well-done, displays and videos on WWII and the Cold War in the Aleutians. They even had a display on the use of Amchitka for the atomic bomb tests that I also discussed in my blog.
I didn't know that the US Fish & Wildlife Service's Aleutian research vessel was based in Homer. A temporary exhibit of their present-day photos of WWII equipment rusting away on Kiska was unusual and informative. Since we weren't allowed to take photos on Shemya (I didn't even have a camera there), it is interesting to see later photos of some of the other islands. We ended up spending far more time at the AIO Visitors Center than I expected to when we first got there.
We got really lucky on the way back. It started clearing when we got to Ninilchik, so we stopped at Ninilchik View State Campground and got photos of both Redoubt and Iliamna. Made my day! So, despite the weather, it ended up being a very good day in Homer.
