Features

Question 1

Blowers Bluff –

Answer 1

bare, light colored, high and round.
Rocks 200yds off at places along bluff.
Shoal extends off the SW end of Bluff 1/3 of distance across Penn Cove.
Favor the S shore.

Question 2

Saratoga Pass –

Answer 2

W side Camano, extends NW 18 miles from entrance between Camano Hd and Sandy Pt. N end connects to Penn Cove and Crescent Harbor and leads into Skagit Bay.

Question 3

Port Susan –

Answer 3

E of Camano I, extends NW 11 miles, 3 miles wide, terminates at bare flats.

Question 4

Camano I

Answer 4

irregular, 14 miles long

• S end – long narrow, terminates at Camano Hd.
• N end – separated from mainland by sloughs, and Stillaguamish River, dry at low water.
• Several resorts and residential tracts.

Question 5

Oak Harbor –

Answer 5

semicircular cove
1 mile wide,
natural entrance channel is marked by lights and
lighted and unlighted buoys.
town on N shore, marina on E side of harbor.

Question 6

Maylor Pt –

Answer 6

E Pt of entrance to Oak Harbor,

foul with several rocks awash extends .5 to SE

Question 7

Crescent Harbor –

Answer 7

semi circular bight between Forbes and Polnell Pt
2 water tanks, and a measured mile on N shoreline.
large US Navy pier extending from W side, part of Air Station Whidbey.
only be used with permission, on the N side is a 183’ T Pier used for fueling

Question 8

Polnell Pt –

Answer 8

wooded, bold Pt,
connected to main island by low ground,
giving appearance that it is an island

Question 9

Skagit Bay –

Answer 9

12 miles long, extends WNW,
mostly filled with flats that bare at low water,
many channels and sloughs discharging from Skagit River.

Question 10

Strawberry Pt –

Answer 10

N of Utsalady across Skagit entrance, has a light.

Question 11

South Fork Channel –

Answer 11

leads into Skagit River winding through flats N of Camano I. Due to shoaling the channel is mostly unused by small boats to Mt Vernon, except for locals with outboard motor boats.

Question 12

Onamac Pt –

Answer 12

N of Camano w/ a light

fish haven to NW

Question 13

Camano –

Answer 13

settlement on E side of Saratoga Pass, N of Lowell Pt.

Question 14

Holmes Harbor –

Answer 14

Entrance is W side of Rocky Pt, extends 5 miles S indenting Whidbey. Mostly private pleasure piers on the shores, gravel wharf and large private boathouse at head of harbor.

Question 15

Rocky Pt –

Answer 15

E side entrance to Holmes, low but rises 500’.

Question 16

Baby I –

Answer 16

Small islet extends .2 miles off Rocky Pt.

Shoals marked by buoy.

Question 17

Greenbank –

Answer 17

small farming settlement, at W side entrance of Holmes.

Question 18

Freeland –

Answer 18

small town at head of Holmes.

Question 19

Snatelum Pt –

Answer 19

Narrow spit extends .5 miles N, marked by a buoy

.5 fathoms btw end spit and buoy

Question 20

Penn Cove –

Answer 20

Indents W shore at head of Saratoga Pass, extends 3.5 miles.

Question 21

Forbes Pt

Answer 21

shoals and foul ground extend .7

marked by lighted buoy