The day dawned cloudy and overcast so we we were hopeful of going to Brooks Falls - I looked at all the forecasts including aviation forecasts on my iPad. It looked like low cloud and rain at Brooks Fall which could impact on visibility and their flying rules...... Anyway we made it to the Bald Mountain Dock - waited around with 18 other people - when the pilot - with 32+years experience said yes they thought they could get us into Brooks today - yippee - the ...

A lovely day in Homer - the rain cleared - but it's still not looking great for our trip to Brooks Falls tomorrow. Anyway we need to be grateful for the beautiful day that dawned today and the view out of our window -of the snow capped Kenai Mountains with glaciers nestled in the upper valleys, all connected to the enormous Harding ice-field. After breakfast we headed to the Carl Wynn Nature Centre where we had an excellent guided nature tour - our guide pointe...

The weather is definitely on the turn - it was grey and overcast when we woke then raining by the time we left Seward, just after 8am for Homer. First stop was for petrol then when were on our way for our 4 hour journey. As we started to go west the weather brightened and we had no more rain until late evening. We thought we would stop for coffee after Soldotna as we would have been driving for over 2 hours but we found nowhere until we reached an Espresso ca...