by CoastView | Mar 9, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Best of 2024, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use
Martins Beach is a public beach adjacent to a private gated community protected from erosion by a seawall, about 6 miles (10 km) south of the community of Half Moon Bay and 0.7 miles (1.1 km) southwest of Lobitos, California. Lobitos means ‘little wolves’...
by CoastView | Mar 8, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Best of 2023, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Natural History
Old Chenega is a historical village at the head of Chenega Cove on the southern tip of Chenega Island in western Prince William Sound, which is part of the traditional territory of the Chugach Sugpiaq people, about 82 miles (132 km) west-southwest of Cordova and 40...
by CoastView | Mar 7, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Best of 2023, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use
Coal Point forms the tip of the Homer Spit in Kachemak Bay on the southern Kenai Peninsula, about 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Seldovia and 5.7 miles (9 km) southeast of Homer, Alaska. The name is a translation by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey of the Russian...
by CoastView | Mar 6, 2023 | 2023, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Headlands, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History, Parks
Cape Scott is a headland about 500 feet (150 m) high at the extreme northwestern point of Vancouver Island in Cape Scott Provincial Park, about 256 miles 412 km) south-southeast of Prince Rupert and 41 miles (66 km) west of Port Hardy, British Columbia. The promontory...
by CoastView | Mar 3, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Headlands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Mugu Rock is a distinctive feature at Point Mugu, a headland in Point Mugu State Park, situated between Thornhill Broome Beach to the east and Mugu Beach to the west in Santa Monica National Recreation Area, about 17 miles (27 km) west-northwest of Malibu, and 9 miles...
by CoastView | Feb 28, 2023 | 2023, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Kachemak, Land Use, Parks, Rivers
Grewingk Creek drains a glaciated watershed of 29,138 acres (11,792 ha) and flows generally northwest for 3.5 miles (5.6 km) from the terminus lake of the retreating Grewingk Glacier to the southeastern shore of Kachemak Bay, about 24 miles (39 km) northeast of...
