Homer, Alaska
Gittoffmy Island, Alaska
Breakfast is a sacred event when camping. A properly prepared skillet breakfast is a right of passage; an epiphany of the mind, body, soul and pallet. We awoke around 9:30A.M. and got to work immediately. 12 eggs, 2 pounds of instant hash browns, 3 croissants, 2 pots of coffee and enough calories to get us through the next 3 months later we finished around 12:30P.M.
We finished just in time to catch low tide and hike around the bluffs and beaches surrounding the island. This is known as tide pooling, which leaves hundreds of small lagoons the size of baby pools around the shore until the tide comes back in. Almost all of these small pools are filled with all sorts of cool ocean creatures to check out. We spent about 2 hours doing this and saw all sorts of sea snails, mussels, small fish, starfish, sea anemones of various shapes and colors, hermit crabs and all sorts of other species we couldn’t identify.
After a laborious morning of eating and playing with snails we went to various spots across the island to take some heavy afternoon naps. Now I know it may sound like we were living the easy life on this island…and that’d be a pretty accurate evaluation to be completely honest. After our naps it was time for a late afternoon lunch of what else? Beans & weenies. I promise this is the last time we dined on such luxury.
After lunch we pumped up an inflatable boat that looked like it might be able to fit one and half adults comfortably and headed out to sea for some halibut fishing. After what seemed to be a day of eating and napping it was time to do some work and catch dinner. About 40 yards offshore we dropped our lines, which took quite some time to hit bottom. Around this time Lisl realized she’d forgotten to plug the air nozzle on the bottom of the boat and we’d been taking on water thus far. Luckily the problem was easily rectifiable and I’m still here to write this entry and therefore alive. During the trip we were in the close company of about a dozen curious sea otters and a dozen more seals checking us out. As awesome as that was we had no luck with the halibut. Fortunately enough we hadn’t had much faith in ourselves to begin with and packed salmon and fettuccini in the reserve coolers. Again we enjoyed a great meal together while watching one of the most beautiful sunsets I’ve ever seen.
Dan working the skillet in his skippies for our breakfast feasting.
Tidepooling around the island during low tide.
A starfish I found while tidepooling.
A sea anemone that we found hundreds of in the various pools.
Halibut fishing in a raft around the island.
Dan and I admiring the sunset. This was probably taken around 11:00P.M.
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