On Wednesday, May 26 we drove to Homer to get on the Seldovia Bay Ferry. The 1 and a quarter hour ferry took us on our second trip to Gull Island this Spring. We saw mostly the same birds we had encountered before except our first ever Tutfted Puffin sightings. We saw 3 puffins from the deck of our boat. After Gull Island, we headed for the small village of Seldovia(home to 264 friendly people and a few old crabs). The first evening we set up camp and biked around town. It was so nice out that we took an hour nap on the sand at Inside Beach. Near low tide we went out to Outside Beach on Otterbahn Trail. The trail goes through part of the Alaskan "Rain Forest." The trees are virgin timber and almost all Sitka Spruce. During low tide we walked through tide pools and saw a lot of different critters. Things we saw were: mussels, barnacles, anemones, limpets, and some crawly critters.
Thursday brought more nice weather. We got up and headed out on what turned out to be a 30 mile bike ride. Our trip took us from Seldovia to 5 miles past Jakolof Bay Harbor. Our hope was to make it to Red Mountain, but snow on the road caused us to turn around. Later we found out we still had 5 miles to go before we were to make it to Red Mountain. In passing we viewed the McDonald Spit. It is a lot like the Homer Spit just not as long nor wide. Mount Redoubt was in clear view many of times throughout our journey. That evening Rochelle experienced her first ever jellyfish while walking the harbor. In fact, they were all over in the harbor.
Friday morning, brought the annual chainsaw carving competition. We watched as the artists started on their large carvings that were to be completed over three days. At 11AM we watched the competitors complete in a 1 and a half hour quick carve competition. It was amazing to watch them create carvings out of 6 foot tall timber cuts that were about 3 feet in diameter. At 5PM the ferry took us back to Homer from our 3 day adventure "across the bay". On our journey back we were greeting by some mama sea otters with their babies on their bellies!
Sunrise/sunset data for Monday, May 31:
End civil twilight 12:44 a.m.
Begin civil twilight 3:21 a.m.
Sunrise 4:50 a.m.
Sunset 11:17 p.m.
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