336 CAPE BAY TO CAPE BAULD. 



Rocks. — A rock, with a depth of 22 feet over it, is situated with 

 Keppel Island lighthouse bearing 144°, distant 1,200 yards. 



A rock, with a depth of 27 feet over it, is situated with Keppel 

 Island lighthouse bearing 169°, distant 1,600 yards. 



Hawke harbor entrance is between Keppel island and a low 

 wooded point 1,600 yards eastward of Hawke point. Hawke flat, a 

 sand bank that dries, extends nearly 800 yards from the shore within 

 the low wooded point, and narrows the passage between it and the 

 foul ground westward of the peninsula, of which Keppel point is 

 the northwestern end. to 600 yards. Foul ground stretches off nearly 

 400 yards from the northern and western part of the peninsula. 

 Robinson island lies southward 600 yards from Lossieux point, the 

 southern end of the peninsula, and is joined to it by shoal water; 

 shoals extend westward about 100 yards, and eastward and north- 

 eastward nearly 400 yards from the island. 



The harbor is between Hawke flat and the shore southeastward of 

 it, on the southwest, and the peninsula, on th? northeast; it is H miles 

 long in a northwesterly and southeasterh^ direction, and from 400 to 

 700 yards wide, with depths of 7 to 18 fathoms. 



Directions. — Pass rather more than 200 3^Trds southward of 

 Keppel island till within the low wooded point, then steer about 102°, 

 and when Grass point bears 1°. steer about 13:^° for the middle of 

 Robinson island, not opening Saunders point northeastward of Grass 

 point till Keppel point bears 57° to clear the shoal off Keppel point, 

 and guarding against Hawke flat; anchor in the harbor ^ mile 

 south-southeastward of Keppel point in 15 fathoms of water, mud 

 bottom, or about 600 yards northwestward of Robinson island in 

 16 fathoms. 



Hawke bay is inside of and to the eastward of the harbor and 

 extends east-northeastward. 4^ miles from Robinson island, Avith an 

 average width of 1^ miles. The southern shore from southward 

 of Robinson island trends somewhat northward- of eastward for 1,300 

 yards to Ourson point, off' which shoals lie nearly 600 yards distant, 

 and this side of the bay eastward of Ourson point is foul, but the 

 northern side is clear except for Cook bank; there is a salmon fishery 

 in the northeastern part of the bay, from which shallow water extends 

 500 yards, and Torrent river flows into the eastern side. 



The shores of the bay, except Cible point, are low, and faced by 

 flat rocks, or shingle or sand. 



Cook bank, east-northeastward, distant 1^ miles from Robinson 

 island, has a least depth of 7 feet water over it ; the passage between 

 it and the northern shore is 200 yards wide. From the place of least 

 depth, the west extreme of Cible point bears 116°, distant 1^ miles, 

 and the east extreme of Robinson island bears 240°. 



