by CoastView | Mar 14, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Coastal Features, Embayments, Headlands, Land Use, March 2023, Natural History, Parks, Washington
Lily Point Marine Reserve is a park located on Boundary Bay at the southeastern tip of Point Roberts, an exclave of the United States on the southern coast of the Tsawwassen Peninsula, about 22 miles (35 km) south-southeast of Vancouver and 30 miles (48 km) northwest...
by CoastView | Feb 15, 2023 | 2023, Coastal Features, Developments, February 2023, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Lighthouses, Washington
Lime Kiln Light was established in 1919 on Lime Kiln Point, a day-use park of 36 acres (15 ha) overlooking Deadman Bay to the south and Haro Strait to the west on the west coast of San Juan Island, about 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Victoria and 6.4 miles (10 km)...
by CoastView | Jan 25, 2023 | 2023, Coastal Features, Islands, January 2023, Land Use, Lighthouses, Natural History, Parks, Washington
Destruction Island is part of the Quillayute Needles National Wildlife Refuge, located 3.5 miles (6 km) offshore from the Olympic Peninsula, about 56 miles (90 km) southwest of Port Angeles and 17 miles (27 km) south-southeast of La Push, Washington. Quillayute...
by CoastView | Jan 8, 2023 | 2023, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Islands, January 2023, Land Use, Washington
Doe Bay is a small community on the southeastern shore of Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands of Puget Sound, about 7 miles (11.3 km) southeast of the community of Eastsound, and 3 miles (4.8 km) northeast of Olga, Washington. The name “Orcas” is a...
by CoastView | Dec 26, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Best of 2022, Coastal Features, Communities, December 2022, 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 | Oct 25, 2022 | 2022, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers, Washington
Queets River originates from a group of cirque basins at an elevation of about 5,000 feet (1500 m) on the south flank of the Olympic Mountains, with tributaries emanating from the Humes Glacier to the north and the Queets Glacier to the south, and drains a watershed...
