Bye bye Anchorage-- Hello Homer

Bye bye Anchorage

After packing up in our downtown rv location we headed to the museum. 

I am sure anchorage has its issues with the ongoing recession up here, homelessness, and other issues for a city of 300,000. However it is a beautiful place with parts of it much like Vancouver with the surrounding mountains, ocean, ocean front bike path, and even a lagoon downtown. 

The Anchorage Museum is an arghitectual masterpiece. Exterior 5 story walls of lined mirrors cause illusionary reflections. 

Inside the 30 ft ceilings on the main floor, highlighted with corduroy like vertical strips of edge cut fir stop you in your tracks. The elevator has artistic doors and is the size of a large home's bedroom!

Amazing artwork fills small side rooms in each of the floors. Video screen presentations on the land and its people's  history catch your attention at every turn. One floor is an extention of Washington's Smithsonian library/ museum. Displays are beyond what any of us expected. 

Rain coat made from seal intestines

In addition to the museum section, there were several very large rooms with modern science exhibits for kids focussed on such things as light, gravity, volcanoes etc. 

This was the type of facility where a person could spend a couple of hours a day for a week and not see it all. 

Our destination for this day is Homer, Alaska. Part of the town is situated on a narrow spit of land extending several miles into the ocean. It is the second longest land spit on the continent. 

Glacier peaks actually make a 180 degree half circle around you beyond the green waters of the bay. 

Once again the weather, ocean and surrounding glacier peaks are postcard perfect. This is definitely a recreational fishing town, with hundreds of boats in a perfectly sheltered marina, and dozens of guide operators eyeing for your fishing dollar. 

I guess you might call it the California  of Alaska. 

High tide covers the sandy beach in front  of Frankie. Lots of drift wood in the grassy area just in front of RV's which we are allowed to use as firewood.