Gull Island - Near Homer, Alaska - July 20, 2016
Homer, Alaska is on the southwest side of the Kenai Peninsula and has a 4.5 mile long spit, known as Homer Spit, a narrow gravel bar which extend out into Kachemak Bay. Gull island is about 3 miles out into Kachemak beyond the end of the spit. Gull Island is about 633 feet long and 93 feet high. It is a rookery for about 8,000 to 10,000 black-legged kittiwakes, 5,000 to 8,000 common murres and smaller numbers of glaucous-winged gulls, pelagic cormorants, red-faced cormorants, puffins and pigeon guillemots. Mako's Water Taxi took us out for a one hour private excursion. We followed a hump-back whale for awhile and saw it breach several times, then circled around the island. We saw a lot of horned puffins, mostly in the water, a few tufted puffins, some sea otters floating near the island, black-winged kittiwakes, common murres, cormorants and at least one pigeon guillemot.
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