by Nina
(Note: The next group of posts, #17-20, were written August 22-23, and published August 23 from Sitka.)
Our next destination, after Denali, was Homer, where our son-in-law Charley’s sister lives with her family. Our visit coincided with the last night of our daughter Becky and family’s visit. Homer is a fishing town (it calls itself the “world halibut capital”) on the Cook Inlet, about 4 hours drive south of Anchorage. It has a long spit of land where the fishing boats come in (the longest such spit in the world). We spent time watching them process the halibut catch, a coordinated display of strength and skill.
And we spent a lovely evening with Becky, Charley, and our two granddaughters, and Charley’s sister Emmy, her husband Ted and their 2 kids. That’s Ted hidden in the first picture below, and Emmy on the right, behind Elsa in the second picture.
They made an incredible spread involving many kinds of seafood and garden veggies. Some of the salmon in the next photo had been caught by granddaughter Merrill. Those are Ted’s hands at the grill.
We were delighted to get to know this branch of our wonderful extended family.
The proprietor of our bnb while we were in Homer was a woman who was a former union carpenter, who had built an incredible house. (That’s not the building we stayed in.)
Fendels in Alaska 