.NET 8 / EF Core 8 doesn't recognize geography type from the PostGIS extension

My ASP.NET Core 8 Web API & EF Core 8 app doesn't recognize the geography type from the PostGIS extension. This is the error I get :

System.InvalidCastException: Reading as 'NetTopologySuite.Geometries.Point' is not supported for fields having DataTypeName 'public.geography'

As the extension was installed in the public schema, I tried changing the search_path to include "public" but it still didn't work.

Here are the installed extensions

                                  List of installed extensions
    Name     | Version |   Schema   |                        Description                         
-------------+---------+------------+------------------------------------------------------------
 aws_commons | 1.2     | public     | Common data types across AWS services
 aws_lambda  | 1.0     | public     | AWS Lambda integration
 plpgsql     | 1.0     | pg_catalog | PL/pgSQL procedural language
 postgis     | 3.4.2   | public     | PostGIS geometry and geography spatial types and functions
 uuid-ossp   | 1.1     | public     | generate universally unique identifiers (UUIDs)

This is how the data type is mapped in the entity class:

[Column("spatiallocation", TypeName = "geography")]
public Point? SpatialLocation { get; set; }

This is how the DbContext is registered:

services.AddDbContext<GeodataDbContext>(options =>
            {
                options.UseNpgsql(_configuration.GetConnectionString("GeodataConnectionString"),
                    b => b
                        .UseNetTopologySuite()
                );
            });

Double-check that the search path is correctly set to include the public schema. You can set the search path in your PostgreSQL configuration or via the connection string like so:

services.AddDbContext<GeodataDbContext>(options =>
{
    options.UseNpgsql("Host=myserver;Database=mydb;Username=myuser;Password=mypassword;Search Path=public",
        b => b.UseNetTopologySuite());
});

Or you can do it in SQL wherever the PostGIS extension is installed:

SET search_path TO public;