September 15-16, 2015 – Cruise to Alaska (Homer-Kodiak)
Tuesday morning we arrived at Homer at 10:00 and it was cold, cloudy and windy. We took a Homer Highlights tour. We started our bus tour with a drive down the Homer Spit and were able to see a couple of the fishing boats that are on the show “Deadliest Catch”. We then stopped at the Pratt Museum which houses more than 30,000 objects in the areas of anthropology, history, art, earth sciences and biology as well as historic photographs of the Kachemak Bay region. After browsing through the displays in the museum we went outside to view the Harrington cabin that was built in 1935-36. Inside there were displays of homestead items from hand tools to crochet work and a cook stove. Our next stop on the tour was the Norman Lowell Gallery where we viewed his impressive collection of large scale paintings which he painted throughout his 50-years in Alaska. We also were able to visit his original tiny homestead cabin where the ...