I woke up at 3:30 this morning with a lot of pain in my right maxillary sinus. I was able to get back to sleep after about an hour, but when I woke up a couple hours later, it was clear I wasn’t feeling well. I can’t even tell if I have a cold or if I am having trouble with my sinuses — either way, ugh. Not fun

On the way to get some sinus medicine, we stopped to see if the eagles were on the beach. There was a lot of activity, but none of it was from eagles.

There were trailers, charter boats, and tractors all over the place. I have never watched a tractor pull a boat into the water, but that’s apparently how it’s done in these parts. Of course, I hung around for a while and got some pictures. Pretty amazing to watch one charter boat after another get launched.

I believe this dog belongs to one of the employees. He was having the time of his life out there running in and out of the water!

When we came back to camp around lunch time, we ate. Mike cooked some food for later, and I took some medicine and napped for about an hour.

We went back out and mostly drove and explored. We went to a site where a moose and baby were spotted a day or so ago, but didn’t see them.

I used my medium long lens to get some shots of Alaska wildflowers, and photographed a float plane where our bear excursion will take off and land on Wednesday.

At one point, we ended up in a neighborhood, where we found these! They’re either brown cranes or sandhill cranes I’ve definitely got my ID work cut out for me from this trip!

It started raining again in the afternoon, and ordinarily I wouldn’t let that stop me from getting out on a trip such as this. However, I am sure the wisest thing is to avoid the cold rain and work on feeling better for Wednesday.

We did see this moose on the way back from the Homer Spit, and I opened the truck door, stood on the step rail, and got this photograph.

Even though I am not feeling well, it was still a nice day. And I photographed a moose! 🫎

Oh! We also finally stopped on the way out of Homer today to get a selfie at the sign. We keep forgetting to do these. I guess we’re just not selfie people normally!