Seldovia is a small island town in Katchemak Bay that is accessible only by boat or plane. It was our mid-way destination when we took a wildlife and sightseeing boat trip from Homer.
Our Captain took the slow route getting there, with a lot of stops so that we could look at all the wonderful sealife and scenery that I posted about here (and more that I didn't get pictures of). Then he docked at Seldovia where we had almost three hours to eat lunch and stroll before re-boarding the boat for the return trip (which was faster, pretty much without photo-op stops).
We walked all around the little town. There were a few nice homes, an interesting old Russian Orthodox Church, several sweet little pocket parks on the main street, and an awful lot of homes and buildings that had seen better days.
Seldovia was very heavily damaged by the Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964. It used to have boardwalks throughout the whole town, but most of them were destroyed during the quake or in the following "urban renewal" projects. One person told us that the town, which was a fishing village really, was just beginning to recover from the severe quake damage when the bottom fell out of the fishing industry. Now it is mainly a destination for tourists and sports fishing charter boats.
The tourist literature said that artists and craftspersons also find it a good place to live and work, but in our limited time there we did not find a whole lot that interested us. (We weren't in the market for art in any case — not much room in our teeny tiny RV for art or crafts.) There were a lot of rustic chainsaw carvings, which normally don't impress us much, but I rather liked these puffins.
A few of the sights as the boat pulled away from Seldovia on the return trip.
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