Inlet
Cove
noun
When you enter an inlet, you've gone into the inlet. It's also where water goes inside of the inlet (it's entering the inlet from the ocean, or whatever), so that's another way to think about it.
For this reading, just imagine this as 入り with 江 pushed on at the end!
バルト海の北の入り江で知らない人からプロポーズされたんですが、とてもロマンチックだったのでつい承諾してしまったんです。
I was proposed to by someone I didn’t know in a cove north of the Baltic Sea. It was so romantic that I couldn't help accepting.
この入江に港を建設しようと思っているんです。
We're planning to build a port in this inlet.
この入り江にはイルカがよくあそびに来ると入江さんが言っていた。
Mr. Irie told me that dolphins often visit this cove.