June 1-Day 16 Soldata to Homer to Seward

We woke to a weather report with a 80% chance of rain  Today takes us to the northwest side of the Kenai Peninsula to Homer.  We just got out of the RV park and saw our first moose running across the road.  True to the weather report, it was cloudy and rainy.  We had no chance for views of the Cook Inlet.  We got to Homer which is a fishing town.  Homer is famous for its 4.2 mile long spit.  Its great for sight seeing and in Diana's case, walking.  After our first stop on the spit, we turned back on the road and saw a typhoon warning speaker system with the bald eagle statue on the top--except that the head moved.  We are in eagle and salmon country.  Now that we were aware, we saw them everywhere.  Eagles are just part of the landscape up here.  When we got to the end of the spit, Diana wanted to walk it, so we dropped her off and headed for the Aleutian Wildlife Refuge Center.  The Aleutian Islands has the largest number of sea birds of any place on earth.  It has a fascinating history, is a tremendous laboratory for studying bird habits, and is being used to study the earth's eco system.  After meeting up with Diana again and having lunch, we headed back up the peninsula and headed to Seward.  The Kenai has mountains and glaciers almost everywhere.  There are only 2 roads on the Kenai, so we backtracked. The weather broke a little and we saw some of the Cook Inlet.  Driving into Seward, we again hit heavy rain; so much for the views.  Seward is a deep water port and was used as the shipping point to support the Alaskan interior.  It has a railway to Anchorage.  We stayed at the RV park owned by the city right on Resurrection Bay in Prince William Sound.  to call it an RV park, is an injustice.  It is really a series of parking lots right on the bay.  We had million dollar views straight out our front window for $15 a night.  This was the bargain of the trip.  The bay, mountains all around, sea otters playing in the water, and eagles stopping and eating 50 feet away on the beach.  Animal count for the day was 2 moose and too many eagles to count.  We drove 267 miles.