There is a strong tidal current here at the tip of East Cape, and the water is very shallow.
If you are paddling against the current, it can be slow going.

East Cape is a popular camping site, and the raccoons here know how to get a free lunch.
Keep all food and water in sealed, raccoon proof containers (If there is such a thing). They can chew through water containers.
Take a walk through the scrub behind the beach.
You will find the remains of many a raccoon picnic.

This is the mouth of Middle Cape Canal. The current can be swift here with standing waves and whirlpools. It's hard to believe this canal was fifteen feet wide when it was dredged.

Lake Ingraham is extremely shallow. At low tide it is mostly mud flat and navagable only in the marked channel. As you can see it's only ankle deep on a tern. A nice inland route from East Cape to Northwest Cape is up East Cape Canal, through Lake Ingraham and Little Sable Creek.
There are several interconnected bays on the south side of the lake that are good for redfish.

Evening at Northwest Cape.

Northwest Cape

After hurricanes Katrina and Wilma storm surges

Panorama, Northwest Cape after Katrina and Wilma

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Paddle on to

Graveyard Creek