2019 Cook Inlet Belugas Count! Viewing Stations

Locations from which you can help us count the endangered Cook Inlet beluga whale during the Belugas Count! event.

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Cook Inlet Viewing Stations

Saturday, September 21, 2019, 10 a.m.–2 p.m.: Stop by and help station hosts spot and count whales from one of 15 staffed and public shore-based viewing stations throughout Cook Inlet. We will have limited scopes and binoculars available but we encourage you to bring your own. We will provide datasheets and basic information on belugas in Cook Inlet. We are asking the public to refrain from using drones. We also request that no aerial counts be conducted by private pilots. This is a shore-based count only.

You can help us help the endangered Cook Inlet beluga whale. Any beluga whales you see will be entered into the Cook Inlet Beluga Whale Ecosystem Portal which is used by Cook Inlet beluga managers and researchers to help assess location and abundance information. You are directly contributing to recovery efforts!

Viewing Station Locations

Click map to view a larger version. Then click on the blue whale tails for directions

Click map to view a larger version. Then click on the blue whale tails for directions
- Station 1 (Kincaid cliffs behind chalet)
- Station 2 (Kincaid Jodhpur Motorcross site)
- Station 3 (Point Woronzof)
- Station 4 (Campbell Creek Estuary Natural Area - Beluga Overlook)
- Station 5 (Windy Corner)
- Station 6 (Bird Point)
- Station 7 (Girdwood - Tidewater Slough)
- Station 8 (Twentymile River)
- Station 9 (Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, Portage)
- Station 10 (Along Hope Highway)
- Station 11 (Port MacKenzie - not public)
- Station 12 (Goose Bay old boat launch by runway— State Game Refuge)
- Station 13 Kenai
- Station 14 Homer
- Station 15 HilCorp East Foreland OSK dock (not public)
- Stations 16 HilCorp platforms (not public)
- Station 17 Tyonek
- Station 18 Glacier Oil and Gas platform (not public)
- Station 19 Ship Creek (small boat launch)