by CoastView | Jul 17, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Natural History, Rivers
Travers Creek flows generally west-southwest for about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from an unnamed lake on the Kenai Peninsula to the confluence with Troublesome Creek and then another 0.5 miles (0.8 km) through Mutnaia Gulch to the north shore of Kachemak Bay, about 3.5 miles...
by CoastView | Jul 10, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Canneries, Coastal Features, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
MacDonald Spit is a sediment depositional feature, about 1 mile (1.6 km) long, caused by longshore drift from west to east which forms the northwestern shore of Kasitsna Bay on the southern coast of Kachemak Bay, about 11 miles (18 km) south of Homer and 5 miles (8...
by CoastView | Jul 3, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
Peterson Bay extends about 2 miles (3.2 km) from Peterson Point into the southeastern shore of Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula and the eastern shore of Cook Inlet, about 18 miles (29 km) northeast of Seldovia and 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Homer, Alaska. The...
by CoastView | Jun 26, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Cottonwood Creek is on the Kenai Peninsula in Kachemak Bay State Park and flows generally south for about 2 miles (3.2 km) to the northern shore of Kachemak Bay, about 13 miles (21 km) northeast of Homer and 6 miles (10 km) southwest of Voznesenka, Alaska. The creek...
by CoastView | Jun 19, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
Mud Bay is a tidal flat about 0.6 miles (1 km) wide, partially enclosed by sand spits and situated at the sheltered base of the Homer Spit on the northwest shore of Kachemak Bay, about 2.7 miles (4 km) southwest of Millers Landing and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southeast of...
by CoastView | Jun 12, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History
Bluff Point is a conspicuous headland with a variable elevation between about 300 and 700 feet (100 to 215 m) on the western shore of the Kenai Peninsula in Cook Inlet near the north shore entrance to Kachemak Bay, about 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Anchor Point and...