| There are no docks on Cat
Island, but there are three good locations that offer a sand bottom for your anchor.
A sand spit on the south end offers an opportunity
to anchor on either side, |
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Cat Island |
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| There are no docks on Cat
Island, but there are three good locations that offer a sand bottom for your anchor.
A sand spit on the south end offers an opportunity
to anchor on either side, |
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| At the north end the island
narrows, and on both sides of this narrow portion a firm sand bottom can be found. When anchoring this far out into Lake Superior, or even when cruising carefully close to the island rocks, the transparency of the water is outstanding - and often a bit unsettling. It is not at all uncommon to see the rock structure of the bottom at the same time the depth sounder is indicating twenty-five feet of water under the keel. |
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| The history of Cat Island
should be familiar by now. Logging and the roads that went with that activity have made
their marks, and not all that long ago; the last harvesting on Cat was in the 1950's. Fish
camps thrived too. Cat Island is on the edge of the action in the Apostle Islands today. Very few of the hundreds of sailboats that call this area "home waters" venture out to Cat. Conditions can get, shall we say "unpredictable" out here very quickly. On the other hand, if you are seeking solitude . . . |
