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This is a diary of where we are, where we were and what we are doing. Check out the older posts unfortunatly I am slower putting up the pictures than Margaret is writing the blogs Colin :)
Sunday, July 24, 2005
Ninilchik, Anchor Point and Nikolaevsk
It didn’t look like a very good day for fishing, kind of cold and dreary, so opted for a drive into the countryside around Homer. We checked out the salmon fishing along the coast in Anchor Point and drove to the farthest point West which you can drive to by road in North America.
We then carried on to Nanilchik and had lunch at the Board Walk Café.....fresh razor clams and Halibut. We also found out that it is possible to buy fish directly from the people catching them. We ended up buying some Salmon from a Packer which was $3.50 a lb. Much cheaper than the $7.00 we would have to pay in the grocery store.
After lunch we drove back towards Homer and took a side road to a small Russian community called Nikolaevsk. There is a very pretty little Russian Orthodox church there call St. Nicholas church.
Unfortunately it was closed so we could not go inside.
On the way back to Homer we took the back road and saw some amazing hillsides covered with Fireweed, the whole hill was purple.
We also stopped to watch some Salmon swim upstream in the Anchor River. To bad you weren’t allowed to catch them there.
We went back to the trailer and had a wonderful dinner of fresh Salmon!
We then carried on to Nanilchik and had lunch at the Board Walk Café.....fresh razor clams and Halibut. We also found out that it is possible to buy fish directly from the people catching them. We ended up buying some Salmon from a Packer which was $3.50 a lb. Much cheaper than the $7.00 we would have to pay in the grocery store.
After lunch we drove back towards Homer and took a side road to a small Russian community called Nikolaevsk. There is a very pretty little Russian Orthodox church there call St. Nicholas church.
Unfortunately it was closed so we could not go inside.
On the way back to Homer we took the back road and saw some amazing hillsides covered with Fireweed, the whole hill was purple.
We also stopped to watch some Salmon swim upstream in the Anchor River. To bad you weren’t allowed to catch them there.
We went back to the trailer and had a wonderful dinner of fresh Salmon!