Homer with the new camera

I am reading as fast as I can, Cindy is snapping away, we can both see ourselves as budding wild life eagle photographers, you knew us when all we were were bloggers, huh

This is Cindy's first picture with the new camera

Homer's business section is on the main land, but most of the rv, fishing and tourist things, are on the spit

These condo's are the only ones on the spit, they are on the end of the spit, the last earthquake dropped the spit 6 inches When the fishing fleet comes back in for the day you can feel the excitement in the air, halibut is hung up and weighed, all the fish stations are in use while people gut their fish, lots of activity

The Eagle Lady, as Jean Keene is known around the world, feeds 300 eagles a day, 500 pounds of fish, every day, from December till FebruaryI remember reading about her but had no idea this is where she lived, I thought when I saw the pictures of her she was some where, where no one has gone before

Nope, she is in a campground just like ours, across the spit from us, she has lived there since 1977

The city council has decided that noone else can feed any birds in Homer, but her, and she can only do it until 2010, when she will be 86

The sign says some of the birds are injured and if you have come to watch please stay in your car, can you imagine 300 big birds flying over your head

This is the camper, trailer that she came to Alaska in, from Minnesota in 1977, they say she stills lives in it

Arlo Guthrie brought his entourage here last month, it was the town's gossip

Homer didn't get an aquarium like Seward did from Exxon, they got a Fishing Hole, stocked with King and Silver Salmon, very strange, don't you think

The Airport on FAA Street

The only winery in Homer, appropriately Bear Creek Winery

This is one of three Russian Settlements, that are still here, they are called The Old Believer's, as they came searching for a place to openly worship in their Old Rite Russian Orthodox Church, Russian is their first language, they keep to themselves, and protect their privacy, so we just took a few pictures and left

We drove to the end of the road, and also the end of Kachemak Bay, it's about 25 miles east of Homer These are the glaciers that we saw going back to Homer, they always look different from another direction

And Cindy saw it again, the cemetery

They have a nice fence and they keep the grass trimmed, but it just doesn't seem like there are many people buried here, something is missing, don't know what

I was trying to show you the strangeness of driving down the spit, waves and beach on both sides and you are looking at the mountains with snow and glaciers hanging off of them

The Alaska Ferry stops in Homer and connects with 8 different ports in Alaska, The Alaska Marine Highway, it's 9 hours to Kodiak, where the bears are MEAN, Cindy says

You know, somebody has to be there to look at those glaciers, might as well be us

We are off by ourselves, which is great, Gracie doesn't have anyone to talk trash to

This is Cindy's first attempt at eagle pictures, Animal Kingdom will not be using these, I don't think

This is my first attempt at catching the eagle in a picture, I got a good moon, but the eagles head was cut off We got better

It's said that if you get into your car in New York, and drive as far as you can in the United States, that you'd end up in Homer, Alaska