Despite getting back from leading a trip in Seward on Friday afternoon, Kevin and I motivated to get back into the car and make the four hour trek down to Homer, a town I have not visited since my first two weeks in Alaska so many summers ago. It was a beautiful drive down the Kenai, with an brewery search in Soldotna landing us at the St. Elias Brewery for good beer and even more tasty wood-fired pizza (bacon and rosemary on a pizza? amazing). After camping on the coast, we rolled into town without much of a plan only to find ourselves booked on a water taxi later that afternoon heading across the bay to Glacier Spit.
Our water taxi captain, Mako, was amazing and made sure that Kevin got a horned puffin sighting before dropping us off. The tuffted puffins and red-legged cormorants were pretty sweet too. 
The spit was covered in an amazing amount of driftwood of all shapes and sizes. We ran around collecting wood and watching the bald eagles (they were everywhere!).
Incredible sunset looking back toward Homer.
Who let us be in charge of the camera?
The hand tram across the outflow from the Grewink Glacier. The pulleys were so stiff, it took both of us hauling on the rope to get ourselves across one at a time. 
The Grewink Glacier. Check out those nunataks!
Walking through the grass at Humpy Spit to catch the water taxi home. 
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