We left the campground and moved to a parking lot for the day. We took a cruise out of Homer Spit to the idyllic village of Seldovia with Rainbow Tours. The boat went around Bird Island where we saw thousands of nesting birds including, seagulls, cormorants, puffins, murres (they look similar to penguins.) We had seen a live video feed of the island at the Pratt Museum. Along the way we saw an oyster catcher (this is a bird) on the shore of an island and quite a few otters. One was a momma with her baby riding on her stomach. We saw a humpback whale repeatedly diving and surfacing. Then finally the tail flipped up and she was gone. The boat captain told us her name was Opal and that her number was Y121. We had gorgeous weather for a change and had fantastic views of Mt. Iliamna and Mt. Redoubt. We got to Seldovia and walked around town. They have the remnants of the old boardwalk system along the shore. Most of this collapsed with the 1964 earthquake and tsunami. The shore sank around 10 feet. We went to another Russian Orthodox church, St. Nicholas, built in 1891. We took a picnic lunch with us and sat by the marina to eat. After returning to Homer Spit we went to dump and get more water. Vicki and Lowell had come to the Spit with her two daughters. They were out halibut fishing and I left a note for them on the Casita door. Lowell called and said that they all caught their limit of halibut. We drove back to Mary and Phil's land near Clam Gulch and spent the night. Along the way we stopped at Anchor Point which is the most westerly highway point in North America.
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