Features

Question 1

Deception Pass –

Answer 1

Split by Pass Island, which reduces channel width to 150 yards.
Crossed by fixed highway bridge across Pass Island with a fixed vertical clearance of 144 feet.
State Park on both north and south shores.
Power cables east of bridge have a clearance of 220 feet.

Question 2

Pass Island –

Answer 2

188 ft high, step and rocky.

Canoe Pass to the N and Deception Pass to the South.

Question 3

Strawberry Island –

Answer 3

lies almost in the middle of Deception Pass 0.4 miles E of Pass Island. 56 ft high rocky and wooded – state park

Question 4

Ben Ure Island –

Answer 4

89 ft high rocky wooded island to at entrance to Cornet Bay. State Park cabins at west end . Marked by a light.

Question 5

Cornet Bay-

Answer 5

Mostly mud flats, shallow and suitable for small craft only. Marina with dredged channel and State Park boat ramp.

Question 6

Yokeko Pt. –

Answer 6

Low wooded, houses.

Question 7

Turners Bay (Inside Similk Bay) –

Answer 7

Small shipyard on West shore

Question 8

Kiket Island –

Answer 8

194 ft rocky shore spit connects to shore

Question 9

Skagit Island –

Answer 9

111 ft rocky shore wooded state park – mooring buoys on north shore.

Question 10

Hope Island –

Answer 10

154 ft rocky shore, wooded, state park – marked by a light on west shore, mooring buoys on north shore. An aquaculture site is NNE of Hope Island, and is marked by lights.

Question 11

Ben Ure Spit –

Answer 11

Low projecting point with shoal extending 350 yds to the East.

Question 12

Seal Rocks –

Answer 12

rocky marked with light

Question 13

Dugualla Bay –

Answer 13

Mud Flats with bluff shore – Range for Swimonish Channel bearing 252 degrees.

Question 14

Goat Island –

Answer 14

255 ft rocky wooded – remnant pilings from Fort Whitman.

Question 15

S. Swinomish Channel –

Answer 15

Channel maintained by submerged jetties, marked by buoys and day markers. Piles for log storage east of Goat Island.

Question 16

Hole in the Wall –

Answer 16

Steep cliffs mark turn in channel into La Conner

Question 17

Rainbow Bridge –

Answer 17

Fixed orange highway bridge to S La Conner across

Question 18

Shelter Bay –

Answer 18

Private housing community with marina on W. shore of La Conner.

Question 19

La Conner –

Answer 19

Small town on east shore of Swinomish Channel, two boat basins, fuel dock and many docks line the shore.

Question 20

Log Storage –

Answer 20

Log storage and rafting area to NW of town on west shore of channel.

Question 21

N. Swinomish Channel –

Answer 21

once N of La Conner channel is banked by low farm on both sides.