Monday, August 24, 2009

Summer in Homer Alaska



Fishing at the end of the Spit by the Ferry Dock




First fish! (very yummy barbequed and served with chips!)










Happy Dog





Alaskan Summer beach attire do you like my subtle hat?




'Camping' on the beach (well Homer Spit actually)






for info and aerial photos of Homer spit see









Crab washed up with the tide



Hermit crab trying to hide




(We gave him some seaweed and put him in a tide pool after we'd taken the snap)


Star fish - Sunstars





This is My Beach








State Ferry Arriving








We sat drinking tea and watched the kids building a huge sandcastle in the sun, thinking how typical a seaside activity this was I finally decided to stroll over to admire it. to be greated with "it's NOT a sandcastle Mummy it's a huge lump and we're Antibodies and when it's big enough we're going to kick it to bits and destroy it..."
and sure enough they did !











from an old gravestone

If you hold your nose to the Grindstone
and you leave it there long enough,
Then soon you'll say
there's no such things
as brooks that babble
and birds that sing,
these three will all your world compose,
just you, the stone and your poor old nose.

(from memory so may not be word perfect)