Information About

Kachemak Bay

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Kachemak Bay on The Map

Location

59 ° 36' 33.001" N,
151 ° 20' 51" W

Region

Kenai Peninsula

Nearest City

Homer

Tributaries

Fox Creek, Moose Creek,

Wildlife

Rock greenling

Kachemak Bay in Detail.

About

Between Anchor and Seldovia Points.

History

According to W.H. Dall, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), ka means "water","che" means "cliff", and ma is an intensive suffix meaning "high, great, large".

Birds Sighted Here

Sorted by Most Common to Least Common Viewings

Common Murre, Black-legged Kittiwake, Short-tailed Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, Red-necked Phalarope, Glaucous-winged Gull, Surfbird, Steller's Eider, White-winged Scoter, Marbled Murrelet, Barrow's Goldeneye, Surf Scoter, Common Gull, Common Eider, Pigeon Guillemot, Black Scoter, Western Sandpiper, Tufted Puffin, King Eider, Red-necked Grebe, Northern Fulmar, Long-tailed Duck, Ancient Murrelet, Kittlitz's Murrelet, Pelagic Cormorant, Rock Sandpiper, Black Turnstone, Harlequin Duck, Herring Gull, Pacific Loon, American Crow, Fork-tailed Storm-petrel, Bald Eagle, Aleutian Cackling Goose, Common Goldeneye, Horned Puffin, Arctic Tern, Common Loon, Northern Pintail, Horned Grebe, Pomarine Jaeger, Violet-green Swallow, Red-faced Cormorant, Semipalmated Plover, Green-winged Teal, Red-breasted Merganser, Whimbrel, Lesser Scaup, Black Oystercatcher, Aleutian Tern, Greater Scaup, Bufflehead, Bonaparte's Gull, Double-crested Cormorant, Black-billed Magpie, Common Raven, Northern Shoveler, Least Sandpiper, Wandering Tattler, Trumpeter Swan, Canvasback, Short-billed Dowitcher, Rhinoceros Auklet, Pine Siskin, Greater White-fronted Goose, Parasitic Jaeger, Yellow-billed Loon, Gray Jay, Common Redpoll, Fox Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Orange-crowned Warbler, Cackling Goose, Ring-necked Duck, Common Merganser, Black-bellied Plover, Ruddy Turnstone, Dunlin, Peregrine Falcon, Tree Swallow, American Robin, Golden-crowned Sparrow, Savannah Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Snow Goose, Canada Goose, American Wigeon, Mallard, Wilson's Snipe, Long-tailed Jaeger, Crested Auklet, Red-throated Loon, Belted Kingfisher, Alder Flycatcher, Steller's Jay, Bank Swallow, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Varied Thrush, Hermit Thrush, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Gadwall, Rufous Hummingbird, Sandhill Crane, Pacific Golden-Plover, Red Knot, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Red Phalarope, Greater Yellowlegs, Thick-billed Murre, Parakeet Auklet, Sabine's Gull, Iceland Gull, Glaucous Gull, Caspian tern, Manx Shearwater, Great Blue Heron, Osprey, Northern Harrier, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Merlin, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Boreal Chickadee, Pacific Wren, Townsend's Solitaire, Lapland Longspur, Townsend's Warbler, Rock Pigeon

Places Near Kachemak Bay
Cities:

Ostrovski,

Bars:

Archimandritof Shoals, Glacier Spit, Homer Spit, Lancashire Rocks, McKeon Rock,

Bays:

China Poot Bay, Coal Bay, Halibut Cove, Halibut Cove Lagoon, Jakolof Bay, Kachemak Bay, Kasitsna Bay, Little Tutka Bay, Mud Bay, Neptune Bay, Peterson Bay, Rosies Bight, Rustys Lagoon, Sadie Cove, San Juan Cove, Silver Creek, Tutka Bay, Tutka Bay Lagoon,

Beaches:

Kilcher Beach, Shingle Beach,

Capes:

Anisom Point, Coal Point, Peterson Point,

Channels:

Eldred Passage, The Narrows,

Cities:

Homer,

Flats:

Beaver Creek Flats, McKeon Flats,

Islands:

Aleutika Island, Cohen Island, Cronin Island, Grass Island, Gull Island, Herring Islands, Hesketh Island, Ismailof Island, Mermaid Island, San Juan, San Juan Island, Sixty-foot Rock, Yukon Island,

Lakes:

Beluga Lake, Bridge Creek Reservoir, China Poot Lake, Circle Lake, Lampert Lake, Packwood Lake, Snowshoe Lake,

Mountains:

Bald Mountain, Lookout Mountain, Ohlson Mountain,

Parks:

Mariner Park,

Peaks:

Poot Peak, Sadie Peak,

Ridges:

Crossman Ridge, Grace Ridge,

Rivers:

Wosnesenski River,

Streams:

Beaver Creek, Cottonwood Creek, Eastland Creek, Falls Creek, Fritz Creek, Grewingk Creek, Halibut Creek, Humpy Creek, Jakolof Creek, McNeil Creek, Palmer Creek, Quiet Creek, Stonehocker Creek,

Routes:

Alpine Ridge Trail, China Poot Lake Cabin Trail, China Poot Lake Trail, Coalition Loop Trail, Coalition Trail, Estuary Trail, Glacier Lake Trail, Goat Rope Spur Trail, Grace Ridge Trail, Grewingk Glacier Trail, Hatchery Trail, Humpy Creek Trail, Lagoon Trail, Moose Valley Cabin Trail, Moose Valley Trail, North Sadie Knob Trail, Poot Peak North Trail, Poot Peak South Trail, Poot Peak Summit Trail, Rusty's Lagoon Trail, Saddle Trail, Sadie Cove Landing Trail, Sadie Knob Spur Trail, Sea Star Cove Cabin Trail, South Sadie Knob Trail, Tutka Lake Trail, West Cabin Trail, Wosnesenski River Trail,

Valleys:

Bear Canyon, McNeil Canyon, Neilson Canyon, Thurston Canyon, Waterman Canyon, Woodard Canyon,

Cities:

Diamond Ridge, Fritz Creek, Halibut Cove, Jakolof Bay, Kachemak City, Millers Landing,