Big Creek is a watercourse in

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. It is approximately long. It empties into

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, at Port Rowan, at Long Point. Its watershed covers , alternately . The largest municipality it flows through is

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. North Creek joins it there. Venison Creek joins downstream of

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. The creek is the largest watershed in the Long Point Region. Small dams riddle the watershed. Three of the larger reservoirs are the

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on Big Creek, the Lehman Reservoir on North Creek, and the

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. Eco-tourists visit the creek, including boating excursions, to sample its examples of

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- rare for Ontario. Canoeing down Big Creek is generally done between May 15 and September 15. It takes 6 hours to canoe from the Langton area to the Long Point area.Big Creek Canoe Route
at Nature's Calling In 1986 the

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designated the Big Creek Marsh, at the mouth of Big Creek, forming the apex of Long Point, as forming the

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. Lake Erie has a clockwise current. Long Point formed when that current carried suspended sediment, that formed the sand spit that forms the spine of the peninsula. The east side of the spit was a natural, marshy, wetland, until the construction of the Long Point Causeway in 1927.

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{{authority control Long Point Region Conservation Authority Rivers of Ontario Landforms of Norfolk County, Ontario

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