Kachemak Bay Pano is a photograph by Phyllis Taylor which was uploaded on March 23rd, 2017.
Kachemak Bay Pano
The beautiful Kachemak Bay was the view that I saw each morning while visiting Homer, Alaska. Not only is it a wonderful scene, but it is inhabited... more
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Kachemak Bay Pano
Artist
Phyllis Taylor
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The beautiful Kachemak Bay was the view that I saw each morning while visiting Homer, Alaska. Not only is it a wonderful scene, but it is inhabited with sea otters and many species of Alaska birds. It is not unusual to see an orca or humpback whale splashing in the bay and enjoying the fresh ocean waters.
Kachemak Bay 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. On summer evenings, you can stand on a beach on the spit and watch the fishing boats round the point as they head for the harbor. One evening I counted 30. Glaciers are visible on the shoulders of the mountains across the bay.
Kachemak Bay is a rich ecosystem where an abundance of marine mammals, birds, fish, plants and other aquatic organisms thrive. As an estuary, Kachemak Bay is a geographically protected bay where freshwater streams, glacial meltwater, and tidally driven ocean waters merge.
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March 23rd, 2017
