by CoastView | Mar 21, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Natural History, Parks
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Halibut-Cove-Lagoon-1.mp3 Halibut Cove Lagoon is a semi‐enclosed embayment 0.7 miles (1 km) wide at the head of Halibut Cove on Kachemak Bay’s southeast shore, on the Kenai Peninsula, about 20...
by CoastView | Mar 20, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Rivers
Listen the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Auke-Creek.mp3 Auke Creek lies on the west coast of the Mendenhall Peninsula at the head of Auke Bay—a three‐mile (5 km) inlet at the northern end of Stephens Passage, about 66 miles (106 km)...
by CoastView | Mar 19, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Chemical Pollution, Coastal Features, Developments, Freshwater, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Oso-Flaco.mp3 Oso Flaco Creek drains a watershed of approximately 7,400 acres (2,995 ha) consisting mostly of agricultural land before forming Oso Flaco Lake, now part of the Oso Flaco Lake...
by CoastView | Mar 18, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Coastal Features, Headlands, Kachemak, Natural History
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Bruin-Bay.mp3 Bruin Bay Fault is exposed at Contact Point, a headland on the southern shore of Bruin Bay along the western side of Cook Inlet, about 123 miles (198 km) northwest of Kodiak and...
by CoastView | Mar 17, 2025 | 2025, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Chemical Pollution, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Mines
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Hastings.mp3 Hastings Arm extends 14 miles (23 km) north from Observatory Inlet into the Coast Mountains and terminates at the mouth of the Kshwan River, about 23 miles (37 km) south‐southeast...
by CoastView | Mar 16, 2025 | 2025, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Washington
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Friday-Harbor.mp3 Friday Harbor is a community at the head of a protected embayment on the eastern coast of San Juan Island, the archipelago’s second-largest and most populous island, about 18...
