CATALINA HARBOK POOR SHOAL. 563 



around them, on which the sea breaks after an easterly gale; in 

 heavy weather pass eastward of the Haypooks, the outer shoal. 



This coast between South Bird island and Catalina North head is 

 fringed by rocks. The outer one of these, Flowers rock, has less than 

 6 feet of water over it, and lies nearly f mile from the shore. Cape 

 Bonavista lighthouse, well open northeastward of cape Largent, bear- 

 ing 318°, leads northeastward, and Green Island lighthouse open 

 southeastward of Catalina North head, bearing 217°, leads south- 

 eastward of these shoals. 



Little Catalina, westward of Cuckold head, is a boat harbor. 



Catalina harbor entrance, situated southwestward 2^ miles from 

 North head, and between Shepherd point on the north, and Burnt 

 point on the south, is barely TOO yards wide, with Charlton rock, 

 having 6 feet of water over it, lying nearly in midchannel; further 

 in, the entrance is narrowed to about 200 yards by shoals, with 2^ and 

 2 fathoms of water over them, lying southward and eastward respec- 

 tively, nearly 300 yards from Goodland point; and by White rock, 

 with a depth of 4 feet, and Lowe rock, with 2 fathoms of water over 

 it, lying northeastward and northwestward, respectively, about 200 

 yards from the turning point into Southeast cove. 



Green island, southeastward of Burnt point, is rugged and rocky. 

 Shoal water extends 400 yards from the northern, nearly 800 yards 

 from" the southern, and 200 yards from the other sides of the island. 



Light. — A white lighthouse, from the middle of which rises the 

 lantern with its dome painted red and white in vertical stripes, 41 

 feet high, on Green island, exhibits at 92 feet above high water, a 

 fixed white light which should be seen over an arc of 157° to sea- 

 ward, between the bearings of 246° and 44°, from a distance of 11 

 miles in clear weather. 



Fog- signal. — A fog horn gives one blast every fifty-nine sec- 

 onds, thus: blast, fourteen seconds; silent interval, forty-five seconds, 

 during thick or foggy weather. The service of the fog-alarm is sus- 

 pended from January 15 until the opening of navigation about the 

 end of April. 



Signals. — Green Island lighthouse is supplied with the Inter- 

 national code signals. 



Rocks. — From Green Island lighthouse, Murphy rock, with 8 

 fathoms of water over it, bears 55°, distant 2^^ niiles; Soldiers rock, 

 with 9 fathoms, bears 72°, distant 3^ miles; Joes rock, with 8 fathoms, 

 bears 82°, distant 3^^ miles; and Feather shoal, with 6 fathoms, bears 

 103°, distant 4 miles. The sea breaks on these rocks in heavy 

 weather. 



Poor shoal, 1 mile long, northeastward and southwestward, within 

 the contour line of 5 fathoms, and on which the sea breaks heavilj^ in 



