Random Sights

Anchorage Museum of Natural History
I found these exhibits about the 4 main native Alaskans, white settlers in Alaska. and pipeline interesting. I was surprised to find that Alaska is 85% Caucasian and 3% Native American. How anyone survived the winters 90 years ago is quite impressive. It was small enough to do in a short period of time.

Seward Sealife Exhibit
The baby octopus were pretty darn cool. They looked like little bubbles with legs. The diving birds exhibit with the puffins was great also. Watching the puffin out in the ocean around the islands was interesting, too, but if was hard to get close enough to see the details.

High above Homer
Someone told my fellow traveler we should drive up the mountain above Homer, and we were rewarded with a wonderful view of the "Spit". It's a very small peninsula where many of the fishing boats nest. It was a beautiful day and the the view was breathtaking.

Norman Lowell Art Gallery
A drive up the hill in Anchor Point landed us in Mr. Lowell's Art Gallery. He has lived there since 1947 and his original log cabin and flower garden is open to the public. He has a very large modern gallery there as well with great paintings and some wood and other crafts there.

Kenai Information Center
A small museum with lots of stuffed fish and whaling artifacts, as well as temporary exhibit of modern native art. Small, but interesting. There is also a cute blue Russian church in town.