by CoastView | Aug 23, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Anchor River is on the Kenai Peninsula and flows west for about 30 miles (48 km) from Bald Mountain to a lagoon at Anchor Point on the eastern shore of Cook Inlet, at the northern edge of Kachemak Bay, about 14 miles (23 km) northwest of Homer, Alaska. The middle...
by CoastView | Aug 7, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Kachemak, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Mallard Bay dries at low tide to expose a mudflat situated southwest and adjacent to the mouth of Portlock River on the southern shore of Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, about 14 miles (23 km) east-northeast of Homer and 4 miles (6 km) south-southwest of Bear...
by CoastView | Jul 31, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Historical, Kachemak, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Moss Harbor is a low tide lagoon at the head of China Poot Bay on the southern shore of Kachemak Bay, about 17 miles (27 km) northeast of Seldovia and 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Homer, Alaska. China Poot Bay is nearly dry at low water, and a narrow channel along...
by CoastView | Jul 24, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Glaciers, Historical, Kachemak, Natural History, Parks, Rivers
Grewingk Glacier starts in the Kenai Mountains and flows generally northwest for 11 miles (18 km) to a proglacial lake about 2 miles (3.2 km) long that is drained by Grewingk Creek that flows 3.5 miles (6 km) to the southern shore of Kachemak Bay, about 25 miles (40...
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...
