[This is follow-up to my earlier post on Homer (PAHO) airport of Alaska.....Orbx says on their website for this add-on scenery "Onsite photos taken by Orbx staff"...this is not uncommon, but I'm always impressed when the developer is willing to travel far from their home country, making this little (hidden) town of Homer in far-off and distant Alaska...one of their destinations for (on-site) photography...And, just for a bit of curiosity...I've shown a MAP shot, below, (4th from last), to get a feel for the distance the trip must have involved...across from the Southern to the Northern Hemispheres...(this MAP also shows the vast expanse of intervening Pacific Ocean south from Homer...all the way to Antarctica...interrupted only by the specks that are the Hawaiian Islands which can be spotted on this MAP too...)...]

Homer Airport is sandwiched between the town and the Spit/Bay (see aerial shots, below. e.g., the 3rd shot which shows the primary Rwy looking northeast and the last-but-one shot which shows the Spit...). Among the airlines operating out of Homer, Era (Ravn) Alaska (see their Dash 8 below), Bald Mountain Air, and Smokey Bay Air operate flights e.g., to Anchorage, 220 miles to the northeast...., You can see signs for these Airlines on the terminal buildings, below...including some of their parked a/c on the tarmac...

And recalling, here, maybe, the "hundred-dollar hamburger" theme, albeit virtual, please take note of one shot, below, of the Cece's Kitchen (blue building), with the restaurant sign just above the "Amazing Bear Viewing" poster. However, I find, online, that the Cece's Kitchen is closed for now.... but, from past reviews, it seems to have excellent reputation of being a great place to eat while in Homer Airport... (breakfast and lunch only...cash-only and no credit-cards...with an inviting selection of omlettes, coffee, sandwiches and burgers....etc...🙂...as the menu shows...plus outdoor seating available too...I wouldn't mind the outdoor seating...enjoying some seaplane activity off the adjacent seaplane base coupled with the plentiful wild bird watching around the harbor...that the Spit is also famous for, provided, of course, if it's warm outside...somehow, those icy glaciers I just (virtually) visited, give me now a cold feel...🙂...Oh well...it's all worth it for sure...)

In the final screenshot, below, shown in the golden twilight, as the sun is setting over the picturesque Kachemak Bay...I'm thinking again of the Title “End of the Road” given to this little town which has now kind of grown on me a bit, while I'm also trying to visualize how far (directly south) across the (interminable) waters of the Pacific...behind those snow-capped Kenai Mountains of that last image...the next landmass, Antarctica, is...!

Hope you enjoy this collection of pictures...!!

[Orbx (Homer Airport, PAHO, AK)]

Very nice set of shots and flight! 🙂 

Next best thing to really being there!

John

Fine pics , nice scenery !

cheers 😉

Thank you for the comments, Alaska, John, pmplayer...!!

 

12 hours ago, John F said:

Next best thing to really being there!

John

True, John...though I recall you are a bit more familiar (than I am) with AK from really being there....🙂...

One of Orbx's finest .

On 4/16/2022 at 11:23 AM, johnbow72 said:

One of Orbx's finest .

Agree with you...they have done a great job...bringing the place to life....