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One major attraction for visitors is a live-feed wildlife camera set up to view seabirds such as puffins, cormorants, and murres on Gull Island in Kachemak Bay. [7] The camera is controlled at the museum, with a touchscreen below the main screen for visitor use.
Kachemak Bay (Dena'ina: Tika Kaq’) is a 40-mi-long (64 km) arm of Cook Inlet in the U.S. state of Alaska, located on the southwest side of the Kenai Peninsula.The communities of Homer, Halibut Cove, Seldovia, Nanwalek, Port Graham, and Kachemak City are on the bay as well as three Old Believer settlements in the Fox River area, Voznesenka, Kachemak Selo, and Razdolna.
Kachemak Bay at sunrise Halibut Cove is one of the main access points to the park. Kachemak Bay State Park and Kachemak Bay State Wilderness Park is a 400,000-acre (1,600 km 2) park in and around Kachemak Bay, Alaska, United States. [1] Kachemak Bay State Park was the first legislatively designated state park in the Alaska State Parks system ...
Turnagain Arm. The inlet was first explored and settled by Alutiiq people, tribes of coastal-dwelling Pacific Eskimos, beginning around 6000 years ago.The Chugach arrived around the first century and were the last of the Alutiiq people to settle in the area, but abandoned it after tribes of Dena'ina people, an Athabaskan people from the interior of the state, arrived sometime between 500 and ...
The boundary for Kachemak Bay NERR encompasses two state critical habitat areas or CHAs (Kachemak Bay Critical Habitat Area and Fox River Flats Critical Habitat Area), and two state parks (Kachemak Bay State Park and Kachemak Bay State Wilderness Park). The State CHAs comprise 923 square kilometres (228,000 acres) within the Reserve boundary ...
The Kenai Peninsula (Dena'ina: Yaghenen) is a large peninsula jutting from the coast of Southcentral Alaska.The name Kenai (/ ˈ k iː n aɪ /, KEE-ny) is derived from the word "Kenaitze" or "Kenaitze Indian Tribe", the name of the Native Athabascan Alaskan tribe, the Kahtnuht’ana Dena’ina ("People along the Kahtnu (Kenai River)"), who historically inhabited the area. [1]
Nov. 21—A Superior Court judge in Anchorage dealt a blow to people using Jet Skis, Sea-Doos and other personal watercraft on Kachemak Bay. But officials with Gov. Mike Dunleavy's administration ...
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