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Homer Spit, Homer, Alaska. The Homer Spit (Dena'ina: Uzintun) is a geographical landmark located in Homer, Alaska on the southern tip of the Kenai Peninsula.The spit is a 4.5-mile (7.2 km) long piece of land jutting out into Kachemak Bay. [1]
Jean Keene [1] (October 20, 1923 – January 13, 2009), also known as the Eagle Lady, was a former rodeo trick rider who became the subject of national attention due to her feeding of wild bald eagles on the Homer Spit in Homer, Alaska. Although she had many supporters for the feedings, she was also criticized for drawing a large population of ...
The museum also hosts a number of interactive activities, from fish-feeding on Tuesdays and Fridays [9] to tours of the harbor on the Homer Spit on Fridays and Saturdays during the summer months. [10] As of 2021, the Pratt Museum has expanded and restored the Botanical Garden, featuring over 150 plants that are native to the region.
Homer is on the shore of Kachemak Bay on the southwest side of the Kenai Peninsula. Its distinguishing feature is the Homer Spit, a narrow 4.5 mi (7.2 km) long gravel bar that extends into the bay, on which is located the Homer Harbor. Much of the coastline, as well as the Homer Spit, sank dramatically during the Good Friday earthquake in March ...
The Salty Dawg originally was one of the first cabins built in Homer in 1897, soon after the establishment of the town site. [citation needed] It was acquired in the late 1940s by Chuck Abbott. [citation needed] In 1949 Chuck and his friend Gerald Gifford put the cabin on skids and moved it to the Homer Spit.
Homer Spit, Homer, Alaska; Kotzebue, Alaska; Long Point, Provincetown, Massachusetts, at the tip of Cape Cod; Minnesota Point, Duluth, Minnesota Also referred to by locals as "Park Point", it's also said to be the world's largest freshwater natural spit. Presque Isle, Erie, Pennsylvania; Provincetown Spit, Massachusetts; Sandy Hook, New Jersey
M/V Tustumena is a mainline ferry vessel for the Alaska Marine Highway System. [1]Tustumena was constructed in 1963 by Christy Corporation in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin [2] and refurbished in 1969 in San Francisco.
Sterling Highway at mile 170 (km 274), descending a long, steep hill (locally known as "Baycrest Hill") towards Homer. The Sterling Highway is a 138-mile-long (222 km) state highway in the south-central region of the U.S. state of Alaska , leading from the Seward Highway at Tern Lake Junction, 90 miles (140 km) south of Anchorage , to Homer .