Today we traveled from Seward to Homer. From one beautiful coastal city to another.
Started off at 8 AM as we had to travel around 170 miles. Took us closer to 200 miles by end of day due to couple of detours that we made enroute.
The route primarily encompassess two highways - Seward Highway for around 35 miles and Sterling Highway for the rest of the journey. Our trip down Seward Hwy couple of days back was awe inspiring. Sterling Hwy turned out even better in terms of scenic beauty despite intermittent showers.
Our first detour was at Skilak Lake road around 22 miles into Sterling Hwy. 18 miles of gravel road between forest that offers one beautiful glimpses into lakes and valleys. Skilak Lake trail lies half way into the road and offers an easy to moderate route to Skilak Lake through the forest offering great views through the path. And imagine our surprise when we ran into two black bears! Luckily for us, they were less surprised than us and moved out of our way immediately thereafter.
Our next detour took us through the city of Kenai. We took the Kenai Spur Hwy all the way till Captain Cook recreation area. Slightly disappointed as there are very few public access routes to the beach though - did finally manage to find one at the end. On the way back, we took the Kalifornsky beach Road via the Bridge Access Road and re-joined Sterling Hwy.
Lot of beautiful stop-over points enroute including Anchor point, but all were dwarfed by the view from Homer itself.
We had a room at Majestic Bed and Breakfast up the hill and had an amazing view of Homer and Homer Spit from up there. The view of the blue seas with the spit stretching out amidst alone made this trip worthwhile.
Started off at 8 AM as we had to travel around 170 miles. Took us closer to 200 miles by end of day due to couple of detours that we made enroute.
The route primarily encompassess two highways - Seward Highway for around 35 miles and Sterling Highway for the rest of the journey. Our trip down Seward Hwy couple of days back was awe inspiring. Sterling Hwy turned out even better in terms of scenic beauty despite intermittent showers.
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| View from Sterling Hwy |
Our first detour was at Skilak Lake road around 22 miles into Sterling Hwy. 18 miles of gravel road between forest that offers one beautiful glimpses into lakes and valleys. Skilak Lake trail lies half way into the road and offers an easy to moderate route to Skilak Lake through the forest offering great views through the path. And imagine our surprise when we ran into two black bears! Luckily for us, they were less surprised than us and moved out of our way immediately thereafter.
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| Skilak Lake Road view |
Our next detour took us through the city of Kenai. We took the Kenai Spur Hwy all the way till Captain Cook recreation area. Slightly disappointed as there are very few public access routes to the beach though - did finally manage to find one at the end. On the way back, we took the Kalifornsky beach Road via the Bridge Access Road and re-joined Sterling Hwy.
Lot of beautiful stop-over points enroute including Anchor point, but all were dwarfed by the view from Homer itself.
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| Homer Spit |
We had a room at Majestic Bed and Breakfast up the hill and had an amazing view of Homer and Homer Spit from up there. The view of the blue seas with the spit stretching out amidst alone made this trip worthwhile.
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