Robert, Thursday, August 7
We hit the library today for its WiFi hotspot. While the hotspot is free for two hours a day, it is slow. Not quite like paint drying but only a little faster. We sure do wish we had good a WiFi connection in Homer. There are a number we can receive that require paying but even those just aren’t very strong. As the speed of a WiFi connection is directly proportional to the signal strength, we don’t want to pay for poor service. For most of the day it was beautiful with lots of sunshine. In the early afternoon some very dark clouds appeared and the temperature dropped precipitously. Then we had a brief shower. The good news is that it changed back to sunshine almost as fast as it clouded up. We did go to the grocery store to see if we could find fresh fish but we were unsuccessful. We grilled dinner outside. It was cool but clear. We had a campfire but we got cold and so we came back inside and crashed.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Homer and more sunshine
Leslie Thursday, August 7, 2008
The day started out very pretty once again. Gee, I really like sunshine. The temperature at 6:00 am is 47 degrees.
Early in the morning we can watch all the fishing boats heading out. Because they fish mostly for halibut from Homer, they go out pretty far.
There is a rig parked a few spots from us with an unusual creature on their ladder.
We spent several hours planning where we’ll stay between here and Denali. Because we’ll be in Seward on a weekend I wanted to make reservations. Around noon really dark clouds came up to the east. Soon it was pouring rain. The rain blew through in a couple of hours so we were still able to grill dinner outside.
We did get to the library to post the prior few day’s postings. The library is a very new building and extremely comfortable. They don’t have a very large book collection but at least the infrastructure is in place.
Robert built another campfire looking out at the beach.
While he’s sitting there without a jacket, that didn’t last for very long. As the sun sets and the wind comes up, it gets very cold. Shortly after this picture we were both in warm jackets and I had a blanket wrapped around me.
I took all three of these pictures at 10:16 pm. Looking up and down the beach. It’s it interesting how the light changes.
The day started out very pretty once again. Gee, I really like sunshine. The temperature at 6:00 am is 47 degrees.
Early in the morning we can watch all the fishing boats heading out. Because they fish mostly for halibut from Homer, they go out pretty far.
There is a rig parked a few spots from us with an unusual creature on their ladder.
We spent several hours planning where we’ll stay between here and Denali. Because we’ll be in Seward on a weekend I wanted to make reservations. Around noon really dark clouds came up to the east. Soon it was pouring rain. The rain blew through in a couple of hours so we were still able to grill dinner outside.
We did get to the library to post the prior few day’s postings. The library is a very new building and extremely comfortable. They don’t have a very large book collection but at least the infrastructure is in place.
Robert built another campfire looking out at the beach.
While he’s sitting there without a jacket, that didn’t last for very long. As the sun sets and the wind comes up, it gets very cold. Shortly after this picture we were both in warm jackets and I had a blanket wrapped around me.
I took all three of these pictures at 10:16 pm. Looking up and down the beach. It’s it interesting how the light changes.
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