If the tourist-thronged towns of the Kenai Peninsula have left you frazzled, catch a boat to Seldovia, on the south side of Kachemak Bay and in a world of its own. Living up to the nickname ‘City of Secluded Charm, ‘ the community has managed to retain much of its old Alaskan character, and can be a restful (and inexpensive) day, or overnight, trip from Homer.
One of the oldest settlements on Cook Inlet, Russians founded the town in the late 18th century and named it after their word seldevoy, meaning ‘herring bay.’ By the 1890s, Seldovia had become an important shipping and supply center for the region, and the town boomed right into the 1920s, with salmon canning, fur farming and, of course, a (short-lived) herring industry.
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