by CoastView | Dec 26, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Best of 2022, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Land Use, Parks, Shipwrecks, Washington
Minter is a community on the northwestern shore of Henderson Bay, at the head of Carr Inlet in South Puget Sound, about 24 miles (39 km) southwest of Seattle and 5.5 miles (9 km) northwest of Gig Harbor, Washington. In 1792, this area was first explored by Lieutenant...
by CoastView | Dec 12, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Parks
Bayocean was a planned resort community founded in 1906 on a sand spit 4 miles (6.5 km) long and 0.5 miles (0.8 km) wide, that separates Tillamook Bay from the Pacific Ocean, about 63 miles (102 km) west of Portland and 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Tillamook, Oregon....
by CoastView | Dec 5, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Oregon, Parks
Heceta Head Lighthouse is at an elevation of 205 feet (62 m), on the Heceta headland, 13 miles (21 km) north of Florence, and 13 miles (21 km) south of Yachats, Oregon. The site is now the Heceta Head Lighthouse State Scenic Viewpoint. The lighthouse was built in...
by CoastView | Nov 23, 2022 | 2022, California, Embayments, Parks
Abbotts Lagoon is a two-stage lagoon on the northwestern coast of the Point Reyes National Seashore, 9 miles (14.5 km) south-southeast of Tomales Point, 5.5 miles (8.9 km) west-northwest of Inverness, California. The upper lagoon is a freshwater impoundment that...
by CoastView | Nov 9, 2022 | 2022, California, Headlands, Parks
Pomo Bluffs is a park on the ocean bluffs at Todd’s Point overlooking Noyo Bay about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Fort Bragg in the community of Noyo, California. The park consists of 25 acres (10 ha) of property acquired with grants from the California Coastal...
by CoastView | Nov 2, 2022 | 2022, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Anchor Glacier starts from an elevation of about 5,700 feet (1,737 m) on the eastern flank of McCarty Ridge in the Kenai Mountains and cascades east for 3 miles (5 km) to Northwestern Fjord, about 52 miles (84 km) east-northeast of Homer and 32 miles (52 km) southwest...
