Deep Creek 7-10-2012

While parked @ Homer we visited with a family from Michigan. The dad told us about a very nice place on the ocean side between Homer & Soldotna. It turned out to be an area I had highlighted in the Milepost book called Deep Creek. It’s a State Campground for $10 a nite.We decided to stop & ck it out. This area is very popular with the locals. It’s a closer (but expensive I think $60) place to launch a boat to go out into Cook Inlet. They fish for Halibut & salmon there. The beach @ Deep Creek is good for clam digging when the tide is low.

We followed this boat into the park. It was a charter on it’s way to launch. Steve had to take the pix of our GPS as it showed us 18ft below sea level. :-?

     

This is what the park looks like. It’s very open. The sites to the right can look out over the grass area & there are a lot of Birds. The eagles are more over by the hill as that’s where the creek enters the ocean.

      

As you can see here were  18ft below sea level…Yah right “lol” The next pix is the launching area for the tractors to launch & retrieve the boats. They also do this @ a small community called Anchor Point. Also not far from Homer. It was very cool to watch.  

    

This is one being retrieved in the next 2 pix & one being launched.

   

Some guys with smaller boats can launch right on the beach. These guys went out & when returned they brought down a table to clean there Halibut. And then he took the table into the water to clean it. I wonder how long the table will last as it has metal legs & that’s Salt water. But what a great way to do dishes

   

Before we left Homer Steve went over to get some fresh Glacier Fed Real Alaskan Oysters. He had them for dinner that nite @ Deep Creek.

Homer is surrounded by the Pacific Ring of Fire. There are 4 volcano’s across Cook Inlet. Mt. Douglas Volcano, Mt. Augustine Volcano, Mt. Iliamna Volcano & Mt. Redoubt Volcano. Below is Mt. Iliamna Volcano peeking above the clouds.  We could see it from our spot @ Deep Creek.   

 

We only stayed there 1 nite and then moved up to Soldotna. My laptop died & Steve was ready to go fishing on the Kenai. But Deep Creek is a Beautiful place to spend some beach time in Alaska.