Pilot Island with its lighthouse and living quarters is a dead island. Nothing grows there and no one lives there or is allowed to visit. The light is the light of Porte des Mortes or Death’s Door. It sits in a strait linking Lake Michigan and Green Bay between the northern tip of the Door Peninsula and the southernmost of the Potawatomi Islands. The strait has shallow rocks and heavy fog at times making it an important place for a light house. Unfortunately, this area is filled with cormorants who have taken over the island. Their droppings have poisend the earth making it unhealthy to get near. An automatic light has been installed making visits intermittent.
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