Limestone Bluffs

The limestone bluffs are Cape Croker's signature feature — sheer grey rock faces rising from Georgian Bay, cut by the slow work of glaciers and waves over thousands of years. The Niagara Escarpment runs the length of the Bruce Peninsula and reaches its most dramatic at the cape's tip.

At low water the rock shelves stretch out beneath the surface, and on calm days you can see the bottom clearly. The bluffs are best viewed from the water by canoe, or from the Bruce Trail sections that skirt their edge.

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A story
The Niagara Escarpment, of which these bluffs are a northern extension, is older than the dinosaurs — a dolomite and limestone ridge laid down in a warm tropical sea some 430 million years ago. Niagara Falls runs over its southern end; Cape Croker marks where it plunges into Georgian Bay.