Time Bandit – Salty Dawg – Big Dipper Chipper – Homer Alaska
Time Bandit
Homer Alaska harbor – gear on deck of salmon fishing boat
salmon fishing gear on deck
Salmon seining boats in the harbor.
boats in the Homer Harbor
Homer Alaska – catching pollack off the beach behind Lands End Inn at the end of the sand spit. The fishermen there caught about 50 fish in 30 minutes. They use two hooks and often get two fish one go. The ones that are seeking the sole or flounder give their pollack catch to those with large coolers to keep.
catching pollack fish
Homer Alaska – crisp looking Pacific Jade at the dock.
red boat
Starfish on the beach – fishermen often catch these when they are bait fishing on the bottom
starfish
Homer Alaska – Salty Dawg Saloon
Salty Dawg Saloon
Homer landmark – Big Dipper Chipper – double decker bus – customers can eat on the upper level and look out the windows while eating their fish and chips. The bus does not actually get out in traffic but is a kind of a unique fast food restaurant.
Big Dipper Chipper
Big Dipper Chipper – fish and chips
new paint job
The Time Bandit has become a celebrity
Anchor Point – 15 miles north of Homer
Anchor Point – taking a boat out of the surf. This beach is about 15 miles up the coast from Homer but I was there this morning and took this picture and decided to include it on this page.
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Homer Alaska – Time Bandit – Salty Dawg – Big Dipper Chipper etc
http://www.homeralaska.org/
http://www.fws.gov/refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=74500
Climbing Mount Apo
General Santos
Growing Orchids
Judy's Resto Bar
Logging with Motorcycles
Mount Mayon
Balabac Island
Biri Island
Calbiga Cave
Capul Island
Mangrove Swamp Palawan
Mikes's Resort
Great pics Mr Pickle.
Around 30 years ago my family decided to take a vacation road trip from California – Homer Alaska. My father was stationed in AK with the US Army in 1962/63. During that time frame the US Gov’t had a land sale in AK. My dad bought some land (site unseen) around the Homer area. He slapped down a couple hundred dollars, and a gov’t official then pointed at a map..ie..”Grid reference 23.4N – 324E is now your property”.
We took the ferry from Prince Rupert, BC to Skaggway, and then over the next few weeks finally made it to Homer. The Locals thought it was funny that a Calif family drove all the way to Homer to see some “wilderness”.
A city/gov’t guy actually broke out the maps, looked up the coordinates, and then drove us 5 – 10 miles outside the city limits to see my dad’s land. The place where we pulled off the road had a couple houses nearby and we all where pretty excited. The Land Guy points at the houses….”See those houses, your land is about 2 miles past them in the untouched scrub brush/forest”.
Oh well….Maybe one day I’ll make it back that direction and area will be fully developed. Keep the pictures coming.
David
Hello David
Thanks for your reply ! Very cool story. The Homer area has developed a lot in the past 30 years so that land might not be as far out as it was then.
very very cool history – 30 plus years ago I used to camp out on the sand spit that juts out into Kachemak Bay and sit around by a campfire made of driftwood and coal that the waves brought in. When someone would catch a salmon we cooked it right there. Homer is much more touristed now days but still very interesting and there are campgrounds and heaps of RV style campers lined up in designated parking areas. There is still a lot of salmon and halibut to be caught !
maybe you will have to come up here for another look one of these days ?
later
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