We spent today checking out the area in Anchor Point and Homer. Homer is about a half hour away from our campsite.

I really enjoy Homer. When you get down into the Homer Spit area, that’s where all the action is. All the restaurants, shops, charters, and tours can be found on the Spit. There’s a really nice beach area as well.

The Homer Spit (Dena'ina: Uzintun) is a geographical landmark located in Homer, Alaska on the southern tip of the Kenai Peninsula. The spit is a 4.5-mile (7.2 km) long piece of land jutting out into Kachemak Bay.[1]The spit is also home to the Homer Boat Harbor. The harbor contains both deep and shallow water docks and serves up to 1500 commercial and pleasure boats at its summer peak.

We found the largest and most well appointed hardware store I have ever seen. They even had a fabric section with some very good-quality fabric, which was quite a surprise. I can honestly say I have never bought fabric at a hardware store before.

Mary and I had decided that during this trip, we would stop at some quilt stores along the way. My goal is to get fabric for a National Parks quilt panel I will make for Tramper. I picked up a yard of each of these.

Mike and I decided we would treat ourselves to a super exciting excursion and booked a plane tour where we will be brought to Brooks Falls in the Katmai National Park to spend a few hours seeing and photographing Alaskan brown bears!!! We will do this on Wednesday, and we’re super excited about it. We figured an epic trip deserves at least one super epic excursion.

We also went back to the restaurant where we had the fabulous dinner the night before and bought some salmon at their fish market so Mike could cook it.

It makes sense that Alaskan salmon would be the best ever in Alaska, but I can’t believe how good it really is! We aren’t going to enjoy salmon as much when we get home!

Dinner prep was in full swing (everyone contributed something to the meal). Mary, John, Melissa, Christy and I went right down the road to the Anchor River Recreation Area to photograph the eagles that were on the beach before dinner.

Oh wow! This was a bucket list bird for me, and it was super exciting to be so close to an eagle!

Dinner was ready shortly after we returned from the eagle, and we all ate outside in between the campers. The wind had really picked up, and it was cold, but it was nice to be invited to share a meal with John and Mary and their family. The triplets ate inside John and Mary’s camper.

It was an incredible day. We are so thankful that we have been given the opportunity to make this trip.