But it would have been at Governor’s Bay, where the present boat houses are, right?
Yeah, I think so.
They built a dock in the ‘30’s, too, so I’m not sure which dock is which.
Well, the way that was built, it was notched on the end so it interlocked like they built these log houses, you know. They didn’t use too many nails. When you added the rock to it and built on top, that’s supposed to hold it together. Kind of hard to explain just how it set there. We had to start with a small crib at the outer end and keep adding on and making it longer so it’d follow the contour of the ground underneath the shape of the island when it surfaced and it was level. So people could go on the island from the dock.
They built a dock in the ‘30’s, too, so I’m not sure which dock is which.
Well, the way that was built, it was notched on the end so it interlocked like they built these log houses, you know. They didn’t use too many nails. When you added the rock to it and built on top, that’s supposed to hold it together. Kind of hard to explain just how it set there. We had to start with a small crib at the outer end and keep adding on and making it longer so it’d follow the contour of the ground underneath the shape of the island when it surfaced and it was level. So people could go on the island from the dock.
That was before the days of floating docks?
Oh, yeah.
