by CoastView | Apr 24, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Natural History, Rivers
Seldovia River drains a watershed of 16,980 acres (6,872 ha) and flows generally northwest for 5 miles (8 km) from Seldovia Lake in the Kenai Mountains to Seldovia Bay on the south shore of Kachemak Bay and Lower Cook Inlet, about 18 miles (29 km) south-southwest of...
by CoastView | Apr 6, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Best of 2022, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
Bear Cove is a small embayment on the Kenai Peninsula that extends southeast for 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the southeastern coast of Kachemak Bay between Bear Island to the south and Chugachik Island to the north, about 57 miles (92 km) south of Kenai and 18 miles (29...
by CoastView | Mar 28, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Mines, Natural History, Rivers
McNeil Canyon is on the Kenai Peninsula and the northern shore of Kachemak Bay and trends south for about 2 miles (3.2 km) following the lower course of McNeil Creek, about 57 miles (92 km) south of Kenai and 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Homer, Alaska. The local name...
by CoastView | Mar 18, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Islands, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
Little Tutka Bay is a tidal lagoon on the south side of Kachemak Bay, on the southern shore of the entrance to Tutka Bay, about 12 miles (19 km) south of Homer and 7 miles (11 km) east-northeast of Seldovia, Alaska. The name ‘Tutka’ is from the Dena’ina...
by CoastView | Mar 9, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Mines, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Fritz Creek is a stream on the Kenai Peninsula that starts from a watershed divide between Lookout Mountain to the south and Bald Mountain to the north and flows generally south for 7 miles (11 km) to the north shore of Kachemak Bay, about 17 miles (27 km) southeast...
by CoastView | Feb 25, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Kachemak, Natural History
Rocky Cove is an embayment about 1 mile (1.6 km) wide at the base of Step Mountain, between Ursus Cove to the north and Bruin Bay to the south on the western shore of Cook Inlet, about 128 miles (206 km) northeast of Naknek and 76 miles (122 km) west-southwest of...
