A Day at the Beach Traditional Cache
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Bring your swim shorts and bikini's (in the summer)
This beach at the end of Sandy Bay Rd, is the closest you can get to Christian Island (1.5 km's), and provides a beautiful view of the island and lighthouse. Come for the day and enjoy the waters, see what Gordon Lightfoot wrote and sang about (In the Lee of Christian Island). There is a ferry to take you across, and a visit to the island is well worth it. (The ferry leaves from the end of Cedar Point Road and runs year round unless the ice takes over the stretch between the mainland and island)
Christian Island is primarily pristine forest. The soil is mainly sand, remnants of Glacial Lake Algonquin. Interestingly, a pre-historic species of grass known as Forked three-awned grass or unofficially as "Ice Age Grass," has been found to be growing on the Island verifying it's glacial beginnings. Forked three-awned grass is currently designated as a species at risk.
look around the edges of the beach and you may find some Ice Age Grass and stumble across a hidden cache too.
Originally, Christian Island has always been known by the Ojibwa as Gichi Minising (At the Big Island), but was also known for a brief period by the Hurons, as Gahoendoe.
Enjoy this wonderful spot.
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