Kayaking around Yukon Island! (Sadie Cove in the distance and memories of many clamming and mussel-ing adventures with Grandpa.)

We totally tried kelp, thinking it would be the taste sensation of the century. It wasn’t. Salt water helped.

Xanna and Lisa took the kids kayaking too! At the Alaska SeaLife Center:)

Fresh perspectives at Jo and Peter’s…and hey, why not compliment the scene while you’re at it:)

Hi neighborhood mama moose! She and her baby visited us several times while we were in Homer:)

When your arms are just too long…flap happy!

We went fishing!

So many sea lions, grunting and groaning. I kind of want to grunt and groan through life too:) We saw orcas and sea otters too!

Why not stop for some playground time at a playground you can only get to by boat or plane?

…Holmes is waiting for customers to come to his restaurant:)

Hello, Greg and Peggy! We’re here!

Ready for Greg’s farm tour!

A digger suspended in the air!

Meryl and I gave ourselves strawberry red lips:)

Greg and Peggy have approximately a zillion sparrow boxes to harbor what are otherwise known as mosquito eaters. Can you believe these same sparrows fly to Argentina and back to Alaska each year? In other observations, Holmes enjoyed dropping things in the water:)