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Dates Open : Open all year

Lake or Area Name : Kachemak Bay, Homer, Alaska
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At our green lodge, Lucinda can arrange area eco tours like a brown bear photography trip, halibut or salmon charter, guided kayaking, heli-hiking, and flight seeing. Other guided activities to enjoy are bird watching, hiking the extensive trail system within the Kachemak Bay State Park, miles of beaches to walk and beach comb, or let your imagination wander, visiting an early last century trapper’s cabin set in amongst massive cotton woods along a clear mountain stream. Don’t forget your trout rod for this may be the opportunity to catch that big rainbow trout. Then return to the Island to relax in the lodge with dramatic high ceilings cut across by rustic timbers, or enjoy the mountains, and the cove from a comfy deck chair, talking to Kevin and Lucinda about their life in Alaska. They can always be encouraged to share their years of pioneering oyster farming on the bay, or trekking across remote wilderness areas in the Great Land with their favorite Llamas. It is the perfect complement to a very Alaskan experience. Join Lucinda as she prepares your meals, or just enjoy the melding of scents wafting from the kitchen. Lucinda will help you plan a memorable earth friendly Alaska vacation.


Soak up the Alaskan wilderness at this intimate, timber framed lodge on Ishmailof Island adjoining Kachemak Bay State Park, part of the Kenai Peninsula Mountain Range. Enjoy three gourmet meals a day, and highly personal attention with majestic scenery, miles of beaches, and secluded salt water coves right out the front door.

The hosts of this secluded getaway are two sourdough Alaskans, Kevin and Lucinda Sidelinger. Kevin, who built the lodge using timbers from the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, created a building that compliments the environment. The Douglas fir, timber-framed bedrooms offer plenty of space as well as large windows and panoramic views of the bay, mountains, and beaches, along with private baths and an undeniably Alaskan flavor. Or indulge your senses watching for whales, porpoises, sea otters, and seals from the decks that surround the lodge. This eco system is quite unlike any other. Enjoy the sounds and the smells of this rich marine environment.

For 15 years we have been raising oysters and selling two to three hundred dozen every week, year around. A relatively young industry for Alaska, we make our living oyster farming, selling our product to restaurants and other markets. We do all the planting, harvesting and maintenance of the farm together, sometimes employing an extra person when we are restocking the nets with young oysters or during the busiest times of the summer, otherwise it is just the two of us. We have a three acre site in a small protected cove. The 400' long lines are suspended on the surface and held up with large buoys; hanging from the long lines are the oyster nets. The oysters grow in the top 20' of water fed by the rich, cold waters of Kachemak Bay’s glaciers and estuaries. The demand for these superior oysters is greater than can be provided for. Having an oyster farm has enabled us to work together and live this rural Alaskan lifestyle that we treasure so much. This self created lifestyle has allowed us the means and the time to create our beautiful lodge. Though our lodge, designed & built by Kevin, has been in the process for a long time our goal has always been to share Alaska’s Ridgewood Wilderness Lodge with folks who want to experience Alaska’s splendor. Bowman and Jessica are life-long first