But tide, wind, and current created another Riddle of the Sands.

A picture, which your digital chart doesn't give you (but Google Earth does)...

:^)

In places where the charts were good and the bottom is "hard", you might depend on such -- but along the "soft" coast WATCH OUT. Especially when they say on the digital chart '1' right next to an otherwise deep channel!

(That's why coming into NJ is so dangerous too -- isn't it, Jon.