After that we hiked the Matanuska Lakes Trails, and the Hayflats Trails.
On June 28th we headed down to Homer. The trip down was really one of our best as we had little rain and no construction. The scenery was exceptional.
We set up camp on the bluff of the Bay Crest RV Park (now a KOA). We plan on 11 days here then 10 days down on the spit at Heritage RV Park. Unfortunately, we had two days of rain with a week of sunny days ahead. The first two mornings we woke to complete fogged in soup. But knowing the good weather is coming we went ahead and booked a flight seeing trip to Katmai. We will be flying on the 2nd to the park headquarters where the famous Brooks Falls are. I am really looking forward to that. We also scoped out the fishing. A bombshell was dropped on us as the Alaska Fish and Game closed all of the rivers to Salmon fishing. I guess due to low number of Kings running right now. They won't open up until July 31st!!!
We can still fish the hole down on the spit and of course we will arrange a Halibut day.
Today we woke to a little fog, but it burned off and we have had sun all day.
We took Mallory down to the spit at low tide so that she could run on the beach. She is 100% a water dog.
Baby ducks Lake Lucille
Mallory after chasing a tennis ball
Sled Dogs at the Iditarod Headquarters
Views from Matanuska Lakes
Homer Baycrest RV.
These Eagle shots are literally above where our RV is parked
Mallory on Homer Spit
Chasing seagulls
The view from our RV
Mallory likes the view too!!
Ken, Brooks Falls is a once in a lifetime experience! We spent three days there in 2014 and one day there were 13 bears all trying to fish at the falls at the same time. Didn't know if you were aware of the Live Cam at the falls?
ReplyDeletehttps://explore.org/livecams/brown-bears/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls
rag-ftw
Thanks. Yes were have been watching the cam and we also had a once in a lifetime trip down there.
ReplyDeleteKen