Features

Question 1

Salmon Bank

Answer 1

West side of Middle Channel is an extensive shoal 1½ to 3 fathoms; it is marked by a lighted gong buoy. Kelp grows on the rocks.

Question 2

Iceberg Point

Answer 2

SW extremity of Lopez Island
Light on white square concrete house with red daybeacon,
35 feet

Question 3

Aleck Bay

Answer 3

west and largest of three small bays on the south shore of Lopez Island,

Question 4

Colville Island

Answer 4

64 ft
small and bare of trees
Off SE end of Lopez Island.
Heavy kelp extends west

Question 5

Davidson Rock

Answer 5

0.3 mile east of Colville Island,
bares and is marked by a light.
TSS just E

Question 6

Smith Island

Answer 6

5 miles west Whidbey
irregular, 0.5 mile long.
east end is low but rises abruptly to an 55 feet at west
terminating in a white perpendicular cliff of sand and gravel.
rocky bank, covered with kelp, extends about 2 miles west of the island over depths of 3 to 6 fathoms.
light 55 feet above the water, is shown from skeleton tower

Question 7

Minor Island

Answer 7

small, low, and rocky,
1 mile northeast of Smith Island
lowest tide is connected by gravel and boulder spit

Question 8

Sares Head

Answer 8

1 mile north of Deception Island

steep 480 feet high.

Question 9

Deception Pass

Answer 9

2 mile pass btw Whidbey and Fidalgo, Only 150yds wide at middle

Question 10

Deception I

Answer 10

.4 NW of West Point
Shoals extend S of Deception I and NW of West Point,
200 yds channel

Question 11

Ault Field

Answer 11

Aero Light is conspicuous

Question 12

Rocky Point

Answer 12

Prominent Tank and Radio Towers

Question 13

Point Partridge

Answer 13

western most point of Whidbey I
yellow face and prominent from N or S
rounding and not easily identified from the W
105 light on skeleton tower
shoal marked by a lighted bell buoy

Question 14

Cape George to McCurdy Point

Answer 14

high, bare, clay bluffs, sparsely wooded at top

400ft at NE end

Question 15

Diamond Pt

Answer 15

W Point on entrance to Discovery Bay

Wharf ruin just inside the point

Question 16

Protection I

Answer 16

Prominent feature in approaching Discovery Bay,
200ft high near W
1.5 miles long, sparsely wooded
N shore bare, light bluffs

Question 17

Miller Peninsula

Answer 17

separates Sequim and Discovery Bay

Question 18

Dallas Bank

Answer 18

extends north from Protection Island

10-fathom 2.5 miles from the north point

Question 19

Sequim Bay

Answer 19

landlocked 3.8 mile long
seperated from Straits by Travis Spit
Narrow channel marked by daybeacons and a light

Question 20

Cape George

Answer 20

east entrance point of Discovery Bay.

Marina

Question 21

Hein Bank

Answer 21

8.5 miles southeast of Discovery Island;
least depth of 2½ fathoms
shoalest part of the bank is covered with thick kelp in the summer
2 lighted buoys
northernmost iwith a racon.