September 28, 2025
When I finally made it to Homer my first stop was at an overlook just off the highway. It was fairly high on a hill overlooking most of Kachemak Bay. The mountains you will see across the Bay are part of the Kenai Peninsula, on which Homer sits. The Bay wraps around further to the left
The first 7 pictures will form a panorama looking from left to right from this vantage point. I will later find an even higher point from which to view the Bay and there will be similar photos in future posts.
Here is a panoramic shot I took with my phone. It ends up being much smaller than a regular photo.
And here is an experiment. I copied another panorama photo and cropped it into two parts. I am posting them here so I can see how each type of photo appears on the blog.
Those last two were taken from the other viewpoint I mentioned above. It overlooks the town of Homer, and I will be spending quite a bit of time up there.
The land mass which juts out into Kachemak Bay is the Homer Spit. I had never heard the word spit used to describe a geographic feature until I was on Vancouver Island in British Columbia my first week in western Canada. When I stayed in Campbell River that town had a spit which went out into the water.
The Homer Spit goes out about 4 1/2 miles and there are a number of businesses and a large boat harbor out there. I will have photos in a future post.
For now, here is a better photo of it from the high viewpoint.
It is connected to land (without a bridge) and the highway goes out almost all the way to the end, where a resort is located.
After I left the first overlook I drove into town and at one point had this view from the highway.
Those are one (or two) of the glaciers on the far mountains. There will be more photos of them in future posts.
This was my Airbnb while I stayed in Homer. It was high up on a mountain above town, not far from the high viewpoint.
It is a recently renovated cabin and I had the whole place to myself. I called the co-owner as I was leaving Homer to tell him that it was one of the nicest Airbnb’s I had stayed in. He and his brother inherited it from their parents and decided to make some changes to it and list it on Airbnb.
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