@helidood wrote:

Would this be a good place to bring a kayak to go paddling around the island?

Rock Island is a great place for kayaks. If you have sea kayak equipment and experience you can make the crossing from Washington Island. If your kayak is the recreational type with no spray skirt or watertight compartments, you probably shouldn’t make the crossing in it, but you should be able to bring it over on the Karfi passenger ferry and then paddle within the relatively protected confines of the bay near the boathouse on Rock Island, as long as the winds are not strong out of the west or south. We’ll be kayak-camping on Rock Island again this year the same weekend as the getaway so I look forward to seeing everyone again. Each year we reserve a private camp site so we can pull onto shore at our site (the geocachers’ group site is not along shore).