Red Cape - from the Mointeach

© September '11   photo by smck

The photo is taken looking toward Red Head, better known locally as Red Cape.  If you follow the slope of that spruce covered head downward toward the right, it is where the slope reaches its lowest level that you will find the relatively narrow outlet of Grand River to the ocean.   In the early days of Grand River the river exited to the fore side of the rocky outcropping showing at the end of the surf.  There, over on the river side of the sandy gravelly bar, are the faint remains of a small fishing dock - large rocks, boulders almost, piled around the scant remains of old timbered piling and cross-members .  There too lighters unloaded store goods to a small barge to float them upstream to the store which  served the community of Grand River in the days before roads were a reliable means of travel between communities.