Homer, Alaska: Almost Perfect Except For...

I was there in 92', on my motorcycle from Illinois. They had a great place to eat then called, Cafe' Cups, if I remember right. It had some really classy dishes, and racks of books you could read while waiting for your food. For some reason, it felt a little like home so I stayed an extra day.

This is a place where you truly see the IMMENSITY of Alaska; came over a hill to the "HOMER" sign; looked out across the bay to the mountains on the other side, a meer 80 miles away, and seeing a Tanker ship in the bay, made it look so small. Then there's the SPIT.

When I was a kid growing up in Anchorage, 1953 to 1966, I remember thinking that having a house on the cliffs above Kachemak Bay would be the most beautiful place in the world to settle down and not go anywhere else. I got to know an old miner who lived on the cliffs, Bruno Agostino. He lived and died alone in a one room cabin and gave his property to the Catholic Church when he passed away. I've never been back to Homer since the 60's and now it's probably too late unless my health takes a new turn, but thinking about it is fun thanks to the internet. Boy, Seldovia sure looks all "cleaned up" from when I worked over there on the Flying Shark and in canneries. It's barely recognizable from what it looked like back when it was a very busy port.

Thank you for sharing this video and I liked it.

Great video. Thx. What a beautiful place.

I graduated from High School in Homer in '86, worked a couple of summers in the harbor after graduation and with the exception of a weekend in the 90s and another weekend in 2003, I haven't been back. I miss it. Thanks for this video. I used to clean the fish cleaning stations in the harbor (one of my duties as a "harbor assistant" which was my job title for the two summers I worked there)...kind of fun to get the memories back watching this. There are obviously changes since I lived and worked in Homer in the 1980s ('81-'86 which were my 8th-12th grades and then the summer of '87 too) but the great views and the spit boardwalk and the Salty Dawg all look the same! I live in Virginia now and have seen much of the world since my Homer days but that town stays in my heart. It was a magnificent place to spend some key formative years of my life.

This is a great video, very informative. And I like your style! Thanks for sharing. We're heading up that way this year 🙂

I just had a 10 day trip to the Kenai Peninsula the same week you were in Homer for this, that first week of solidly beautiful weather mid July. It was an unforgettable experience. In Homer we water taxied out to Tutka Bay to fish and kayak and camp, then we took a float plane tour out of Beluga Lake. Awesome few days in Homer.

Well done!

This is awesome episode...i do love it 💯👌🏻🇸🇦💐

We were there in late July ‘23 and I really liked the Spit! 🤷‍♀️

I visited there in the early 1970s when I was stations at Ft. Richardson.

This reminds me of the old national videos , thankyou

What a wonderful town

The last time I went to Homer was during "the virus of unknown origin:":. Restaurants couldn't get enough workers to stay open for a full schedule, and many were closed completely. The grocery store looked like it had been hit by a swarm of locusts, so I spend the three days living on cheese, crackers and smoked sausage, and one seafood meal on the Spit. I guess it was kind of my own fault. I didn't check before I went.

A quaint little drinking village with a fishing problem. I had a great time.

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You didn't mention that Alaska The Last Frontier is filmed just 12-13 miles out of Homer, overlooking Kachemak Bay.

I wonder how many sunny days you have like in this video and temps that make it into the 60s ?

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