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The Cove Ledger

Field notes from Halibut Cove, the bay it sits in and the boats that reach it

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The cove

Ismailof Island, the boardwalks, the tide, the weather and the artists colony that turned a fishing camp across Kachemak Bay into the Halibut Cove of today.

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A weathered wooden dock on pilings running out over green water and floating kelp at mid tide in Halibut Cove, a small white skiff tied alongside, spruce shores and snow-capped peaks across Kachemak Bay under a pale evening sky.

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Reading the Tide in Halibut Cove

Kachemak Bay moves close to twenty feet of water twice a day. How the tide shapes a morning in Halibut Cove: docks, skiffs, the lagoon entrance, the flats and the kelp.