358 CAPE BAY TO CAPE BAULD. 



1 to 2 knots at the anchorage, the flood setting southward, and the 

 ebb northeastward. 



Eddies cove, eastward about 44 miles from Green island, affords 

 good shelter for small boats, with all winds, inside a ledge of rock 

 just eastward of West point, at the western end of the cove. 



Tides. — It is high water, full and change, at Eddies cove at about 

 lOh. 3m. ; springs rise about 3^ feet. 



The coast from Eddies cove trends east-northeastward and is 

 straight and rocky, with occasional low cliffs, to Big brook, a distance 

 of 13 miles. 



Anchorag'e. — Watts point is northeastAvard about 5} miles from 

 West point of Eddies cove, and there is anchorage water between 

 these points at J to 1 mile offshore, but with no shelter from the pre- 

 vailing winds. 



Big" brook affords good shelter for small boats. 



The coast from Big brook continues northeastward for 5^ miles to 

 the western entrance point of Watts bight. 



Watts bight, or Open bay, is f mile wide between the entrance 

 points and about | mile deep, but shoal water extends around it; it 

 does not afford any protection to vessels, although boats shelter in its 

 shallow northeastern end during easterly weather. 



Boat head, eastward of Watts bight, is a peninsula projecting 

 about I mile from the mainland ; it is about 1| miles long in a north- 

 easterly and southw^esterly direction, 49 feet high, bare and grassy on 

 top, and falls southeastward to a marshy flat separating Watts bight 

 from Boat harbor. 



Boat harbor, on the eastern side of Boat head, affords fairly good 

 shelter to vessels drawing less than 14 feet of water during westerly 

 winds, the anchorage abreast the northeastern point of Boat head 

 being protected from the sea by a reef extending nearly 800 yards 

 from the point. A reef, with 1 to 2 fathoms over it, extends nearly 

 600 yards from the main at nearly ^ mile northeastward of Boat head. 

 The passage «into the harbor between the two reefs is about 200 yards 

 wide, and there is anchorage in the harbor in 3^ fathoms. 



During strong northeasterly winds the harbor is unapproachable 

 owing to the heavy swell, although boats find fairly good shelter at 

 its head, where the swell is somewhat stopped by patches of reef and 

 shoal water. 



The coast is low and rocky for nearly a mile northeastward of 

 Boat head, and thence to cape Norman, a distance of 3 miles, it is 

 composed of cliffs of loose shale 70 to 80 feet high. It is steep-to, the 

 20-fathom contour line being little more than ^ mile off the land. 



Cape Norman is bare, rocky, and rises to low cliffs. On it are 

 several huts used by the seal fishers. The northwestern side of the 

 cape is steep, but from close southeastward of it to Whale point, which 



