Sacramento Shoal, hard shifting sand, lies off the entrance to the Guatami Godavari and extends about 4 miles SE and 3.5 miles E from Sacramento Light. Depths over this breaking shoal range from 2.7 to 5.5m. This shoal is subject to frequent changes in position and depth.
Tides
The current from January through April sets steadily to the NE along the coast between Machilipatnam and Godavari Point.
In the vicinity of Sacramento Shoal a rate of 4 knots is usually experienced about 5 miles offshore. The current in the bay to the W of Narasapur Point is weak and variable.
Hope Island (16 km long sand spit from the sand carried by the waters of Godavari delta), one of a chain of similar islands which form part of the delta of the Godavari River, is low, swampy, and covered with jungle. The area between Kakinada coast and Hope Island is known as Kakinada ...
Godavari Point is the N extremity of a low sandy spit and narrow sand bank, which forms a part of the coast N of Hope Island.
The coast between the mouth of the Gautami Godavari and Godavari Point, about 24 miles to the N, is very low and intersected by many small outlets. The ...
The port of Cocanada comprises a partly-exposed anchorage located about 3 to 4 miles NNE of the entrance of the Cocanada River and is suitable for ocean-going vessels; cargo is transported by lighters between the anchorage and the wharves on the river bank abreast of the town.Tidal ...
Vakalapudi Lighthouse is situated about 10 Km north east from Kakinada (Cocanada) town. It is a tower 23 m high circular masonry tower red and white bands. The coast, up to 10 miles NE of Vakalapudi, is low and marked by numerous villages and coconut trees. Low sand hills then ...
Narasapur Point, low and wooded, lies on the E side of the mouth of the Vasishta Godavari, which is the southernmost branch of the Godavari River. An obelisk, 24.4m high, lies about 1 mile N of the point. During January and February, the current sets W at a maximum rate of 2 ...
New Machilipatnam Light is shown from a white, round, concrete tower with black bands, 3.8 miles NNE of the mouth of Machilipatnam Creek. The great tsunami of 26 December
2004 swept
away hundreds of people on the beach and reached the base of the lighthouse,
but the tower was ...
Sacramento Shoal, hard shifting sand, lies off the entrance to the Guatami Godavari and extends about 4 miles SE and 3.5 miles E from Sacramento Light.
