A numerical model, with a coastal boundary and near shore surface or bottom front is used to examine the role of the coast and front upon the generation and propagation of wind induced near‐inertial internal waves. When stratification extends to the coast, near‐inertial internal waves are produced at the coastal boundary. However when the near shore region is well mixed, the source of near‐inertial internal wave production is the front. Near‐inertial internal waves generated on the positive vorticity side of the front, propagate away in the horizontal. Those generated on the negative vorticity side are trapped although some vertical propagation occurs. When a coastal boundary is included significant inertial currents are found at depth phase shifted by 180° from the surface. This goes some way to explain the recent observed distributions of inertial energy found in near coastal measurements.