by CoastView | Nov 16, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, November 2024
Point San Luis is the site of a historic light station on a peninsula formed by San Luis Hill, a headland with an elevation of 708 feet (216 m), that provides a sheltered harbor for Port San Luis and the community of Avila Beach on San Luis Obispo Bay, about 118 miles...
by CoastView | Oct 27, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, October 2024, Parks
Point Sur Light Station is situated on a prominent volcanic rock just offshore from the Big Sur coast, and connected to the mainland by a sandy tombolo, about 60 miles (97 km) northwest of San Simeon and 20 miles (32 km) south of Monterey, California. Historically the...
by CoastView | Oct 25, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, October 2024, Washington
Gig Harbor is an embayment and community on the western shore of Puget Sound across from Point Defiance at the confluence of Tacoma Narrows, Dalco Passage, and Colvos Passage, about 21 miles (34 km) south-southwest of Seattle and 8.5 miles (14 km) northwest of Tacoma,...
by CoastView | Oct 23, 2024 | 2024, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, October 2024, Parks
Lighthouse Park was historically called Point Atkinson, a headland that together with Point Grey to the south, defines the entrance to Burrard Inlet, a fjord incising the lower mainland of British Columbia, about 33 miles (53 km) northeast of Nanaimo and 8 miles (13...
by CoastView | Oct 18, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, October 2024, Washington
Dofflemyer Point is located in the community of Boston Harbor, on the eastern shore of South Puget Sound, and defines the entrance to Budd Inlet, about 23 miles (37 km) west-southwest of Tacoma and 7 miles (11 km) north of Olympia, Washington. Olympia was founded in...
by CoastView | Oct 16, 2024 | 2024, Biodiversity, British Columbia, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, October 2024, Parks
The Lucy Islands is a small group of islets and reefs situated 26 miles (42 km) south of the Alaska border at the intersection of Brown Passage and Chatham Sound, about 83 miles (134 km) southeast of Ketchikan and 12 miles (19 km) west of Prince Rupert, British...
