The Halibut Fishing Capital of the World

Homer, Alaska is known as the Halibut Capital of the World. It wasn't the halibut season when we were there, but the harbor (at the end of a 4-mile "Homer Spit" jutting out half way into the bay) was still very crowded.



Note how deep the harbor is? And how long the poles are? Kachemak Bay has some of the highest tides in the world. Check out the pole below - see how high up the wet section with the mussel growth reaches? That's how high the tides got that day. The highest tides reach 28 feet!


The signs below were surely born of painful experience... The seagulls (actually kittawakes) breed right in the harbor.


My Guardian friends will get a kick out of this:


At the end of the Homer Spit, the scenery was absolutely stunning.




Kodiak Ferry coming in:


While waiting for birds, I watched a Coast Guard plane practice take-offs and landings multiple times:






The mornings in Homer can be very serene.




But the calm never lasts two longs. Cloud so thick that you can almost touch them can descent in a minute.


In Homer, keeping old buses is a thing. We saw them in more than one location. (Those who read "Into the Wild" will recall that the story took place not too far from Homer - and also in an old bus.)




Some other cool sights around Homer: