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the impressive sea caves at Cave Point County Park
From south to north in Whitefish Bay, the geology shifts from dunes to mixed sand
and stone and, finally, at Cave Point, to exposed limestone ledges thrusting up to 50 feet
above the water of the Niagara Escarpment, the bedrock of the peninsula. Some 425 mil-
lion years ago, the Silurian Sea covered this entire region. You can still find fossils in ex-
posedrock.Theseledgesareona“bowl,”theoppositesideofwhichisNiagara Falls.Eons
of crashing waves have hewn caves and cenotes that show up as blowholes of sorts as the
surf pounds and crashes, echoing like rolling thunder. The whole effect is not unlike the
crumbled parapets of a time-worn castle. Sea kayakers have a field day snooping around
this small promontory. Old-timers tell of a schooner that slammed into the rocks at Cave
Point in 1881. Laden with corn, the ship cracked like a nut and spilled its cargo, and within
afewdays,cornhadmysteriouslyappearedinGreenBayontheothersideofthepeninsula.
