Homering About

We've been hanging about in Homer, getting on with the mundane tasks of a settling into new place. New license plates, driver's licenses, voting registration, yada yada yada. 

Interspersed have been trips to Anchorage and Soldotna for food and whatnot. It takes all day to get to Anchorage and back, but the winter may make the roads a bit dicier to travel on, so we are planning ahead. We are doing some hikes around town, enjoying the fall colors (not seen in Southeast Alaska where we used to live), and breathing the clean, cool air. 

 Still a bit o'green around.

 A view of Grewingk glacier (across Kachemak Bay) and the spit.

Especially like "stomp the living daylights out of you" in the Word to the Wise section.

View towards Mt. Iliama.

We also took a drive over to Seward to see the Exit glacier, named because it was the exit off of the massive Harding Icefield by the first expedition to cross over it.

Exit glacier is one of two glaciers in Alaska that you can drive very close to (the other is Mendenhall glacier in Juneau).

This glacier has a history of fast retreats. The sign to the left is where the glacier was in 2005. It has retreated that far in 13 years. That's me missus on the right.

View from the 2005 sign. The melt hole at the bottom is probably 30 feet tall.

The next pictures are views looking back from the glacier.

All of the lower ground in these last two pictures was covered by the glacier in 1993.

The glacier was all the way to the white line in 1950!

Saw a moose wandering about town, but too quick for a picture was she! We expect more moose in town as the snow in the mountains drives them down.

Peace my friends!