Property Info

Environmentally sensitive property, dogs not permitted.
To protect the Common Terns who often nest on this property, dogs are not permitted. All visitors are asked to limit their use on the western shore to help protect the tern nesting area.

South-East Wooded Pine is one of several outlying islands that the Georgian Bay Land Trust has helped to protect. The island is characterized by a small stand of the characteristic Georgian Bay wind-swept White Pines surrounded by low-lying, predominantly open bedrock. Throughout the bedrock are small depressions, many of which are filled in by a variety of wetlands including small bogs, meadow marsh communities and seasonal ponds. As an off-shore island, South-East Wooded Pine provides critical refuge habitat for migrating birds, including breeding habitat for Killdeer, which was observed nesting on the island in 2001. The island is well known for serving as a destination for the Group of Seven.