216 CREW POINT TO CAPE RAY. 



Nick Power cove, the entrance of which is westward of the point, 

 extends northward 1.600 yards, with a general width of 300 yards. 

 At the northwestern side of the head of the cove is a brook, off which, 

 distant 100 yards, lies a rock that covers at high water. 



Anchorage. — There is anchorage in 15 fathoms water, eastward 

 of this rock, but the cove is open, to the southward. 



The bar, with 3 fathoms of water on it, bears 290°, distant 400 

 yards from the western end of Nick Power point headland. 



Aviron point, 1|- miles west-southwestward of Nick Power point, 

 is the southern end of an isolated conical-shaped hill, 290 feet high, 

 connected by a low marsh to the mainland. Distress rock, 20 feet 

 high, bears 93°, distant 400 yards, from Aviron point. Styles point 

 is a mile north-northwestward of Aviron point, and the coast between 

 is rugged, with deep gaps in the cliffs. 



Aviron bay. — Long point bears westward, distant lj% miles from 

 Aviron point, and from between them Aviron bay, also known as Oar 

 bay, stretches northward with a slight curve for 3| miles; it has a 

 general width of 600 yards, and depths of water ranging from 43 to 

 86 fathoms. 



Aviron rock, 20 feet high, lies in the middle of Aviron bay 

 entrance. A bank extends southeastward 500 yards from the rock, 

 and at its end there is a depth of 2f fathoms. 



Northeast cove, near the head of Aviron bay, has anchorage in 

 16 to 20 fathoms water. 



The head of the bay, a basin nearly ^ mile deep, is entered by a 

 passage 150 yards wide, through which a depth of 15 feet can be 

 carried, and there is excellent anchorage in it for small vessels in 4 

 fathoms water. On its northern side is a magnificent waterfall over 

 the slope of a hill 1,120 feet high. 



Bagg cove lies immediately within the narrows on the northwest- 

 ern side of Aviron bay, but it affords no anchorage. 



Water can be obtained at many places in Aviron bay, and small 

 wood from near its head. 



Cul-de-sac, northwestward 1^ miles from Aviron point, is an 

 inlet 1,400 yards in extent, divided at its head into two coves by 

 Battery point, a bare promontory 120 feet high. 



There is a settlement on the eastern side of Battery point, but only 

 small vessels can anchor off it. For larger vessels there is sheltered 

 anchorage in 5 fathoms of water, sand bottom, at 163°, distant 400 

 yards from Battery point. 



Wild cove, on the eastern side of the shingle beach connecting 

 cape la Hune with the mainland, is i mile deep, and at its north- 

 eastern part is a sandy beach 400 yards off which there is anchorage 

 in 6 to 7 fathoms water, but open to southerly and easterly winds. 



