We would leave the Captain Cook area around 7:30 and go south toward Homer today. We stopped at Ninilchik around 8:30 as this is a little Russian community that is right off the water.
There is also a little Russian church
there on top off the hill over-looking the water and little community. We continued
on to Anchor Point which claims to be the farthest western part of U.S.
land that is accesssable by road without using a boat or airplane. Anchor
Point is a small busy town with a nice beach. We reached
Homer
around 10:30 and spent most of the time on the spit. There are many small shops ,fishing
charters, tours and restaurent on each side of the spit and there is nice
scenery that is surrounded by mountains. It was a nice day with the sun out
and although it was cloudy looking southeast at the Alaska Peninsule, there was a
good view of the southern tip of Kenai Peninsula. 
We started to drive out to
a small town called Kachemak but turned around after 10 miles as it was
going to be 60 miles of gravel road. There were some nice houses along this area
that also had nice views of the water inlet. We also found a small house that
was a little larger than a dog house. It was about 3 ft tall along the gravel road as we
took a picture of Jacob standing next to it.
We headed back towards Anchorage around 1:30
We stopped at Crow Creek
on the way back to Anchorage as this was about 5 miles south of the city.
This was a public gold mine where people could pan for gold, it also had a
duckpond, flower garden, old tools and houses. We got into
Anchorage around 6:30 pm and went to the Tidal Wave Used Book Store and
The Greek Corner Restaurent that were both located on the same road.
The book store was well stocked with books
on Alaska and I wished that we had more time but they closed at 7:00. The
restaurent was the best food that we had on the trip and it helped that they
also had outside dining. It was a nice day out as the sky was still bright blue
when we were done eating at 10:00. We drove north at this point out of town
on highway 1 as I wanted to keep driving for a little while. We drove for
about an hour and stopped at Matanuska Glacier Rec. Area as there were
some walk-in campsights available and we stayed here for the night. I drove 500 miles today
and 4350 total in nine days.