Seldovia is a little town across Kachemak Bay from Homer. The area was the meeting and trading place for the native people in the early days. Russians traders arrived and settled in Seldovia in the 1740s. It was named Zaliv Seldovoi, Bay of Herring in Russian, in 1852.
There is no road system to Seldovia, and the only way to get there is by plane or boat. The weather was a little rough and we didn't want to take Sari Timur, so we took the tourist boat over. We stopped along the way to look at the bird rookery as well as whale watching. We saw many whales and even had one come within 6 feet of the boat. He went under the bowsprit and we were told it was very rare they did that.
We had lunch in Seldovia and took a walk along the boardwalk. While there we bumped into Marc from the sailing yacht, Shag II. It was nice catching up with him since we last saw him in Kushiro, Japan.
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| dinghy ride to the tour boat. Notice that Mark lost his beard |
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| a bird sitting in the center of the rock formation |
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| one of the whales we saw |
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| not a good photo of the fluke as the whale was sounding |
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| Laura and Steve on the boardwalk |
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| there are many sea otters around and this is one of them having his lunch |
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