Sue & Paul's Alaska Travel Adventure
Day 7, Homer Views (5/20)
We slept in again this morning.  Got a late start but luckily Homer is a small town. The view across the bay is the Kachemak Bay State Park, 375,000 acres of mountains, glaciers and ocean.  No roads go to the park.  To get there, one needs to take a sea taxi or excursion boat from Homer.  We chose not to take a water taxi to visit the park, instead we traveled to the top of Homer, to "Skyline Drive" and got a fantastic view of the park across the water.  We stopped at the Coyle nature walk which wasn’t open yet and still had snow on the boardwalk. We saw bear scat which looked like a black cow-pie and lots of moose droppings which are the size of little chocolate easter eggs and have a pine-cone brown color. 

Photo: Homer Spit
We also visited the Maritime National Wildlife Center.  They had lots of good info and a nature walk along the coast on a boardwalk through a slough (bog).  We also visited the Pratt Museum in Homer.  They have a great natural history collection of skeletons, stuffed wild things, artifacts, botanical garden, and a homesteader cabin where a pioneer woman explained to grade school kids what it was like 50 years ago when she and her husband came to Homer.
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