Meet your Hosts
My name is Carole Hamik, and my husband and I came up the
Alcan Highway 32 years ago. We had heard that Homer was the Shangri-la of Alaska and surely it did turn out to be so much more.
Jack taught high school math in Sand Point and then we moved to Homer to raise our 2 daughters. He also commercially fished
for halibut in Kachemak Bay and around the Barren Islands and near Kodiak Island. He has taken f/v Whalesong to Sand Point
from Homer for 23 fishing seasons to gill net for red salmon and ling cod. Sand Point is 600 miles west of Homer, near the Alaska
Peninsula and it is also a very beautiful place. Homer has been our happy little home all this time and I enjoy sharing the most
enjoyable aspects of it to our delighted guests.
Guest Comments
June 11, 1994
It was an honor to be your first guests! This is a beautiful place.
Maury and Toni Dean
Patchogue, N.Y
June 22, 2003
Thank you for the pleasant, quiet, homey accommodations What a great nights sleep. So peaceful.
Shawnie Olsen
Seattle, Wa.
July 5th, 2005
Thank you for your warm welcome and comfortable accommodations, Carole. You really make this feel
like "home" away from home. I really appreciated the hearty breakfast of fruit,
homemade muffins, yogurt and local coffee to start my day. Your engaging personality is a
wonderful asset to your role as host, and I will certainly seek to return to Whalesong in the
future. In traveling around the state I have visited more than a few B&B's, each of which
has it's own unique character. Some display a well defined "theme", while others are less
clear, but you have brought your own creativeness to defining at least 2 very evident themes
in Whalesong- the sea with many aspects of a mariners life , and a strong appreciations of
nature. Your extensive collection of photos, paintings, floats, sea shells, coral, crabs,
mariner charts,sea anemones,murx and turbinate and abalone and volcano shells and numerous
others define your strong connection with all that relates to sea life. I think the secret of
Whalesong may be that you are the mermaid incarnate. At the same time your inclusion of natural
wood as tree section tables and in the furniture and reflect an appreciation of the land.
Your natural wood floor reminds me of a ship deck, so maybe this reinforces the fundamental
focus of your home .
The musings of a budding violinist,
Clyde
Palo Alto, Ca.
July 22, 2010
Carole, thank you so much for our wonderful stay. I'm certain I said," I love this place" nearly 15
times yesterday evening and this morning. Very comfortable, beautiful woodworking,
incredible hospitality. We loved it, will be back.
:)
Sara Black,
Chicago, Il.