Pictures from Canada Trip July/August 2002








The glacier spilling a small and shrinking tongue down the valley.
 
 

The strip of bare rock is where the glacier used to be 100 years ago.
 
 

Sea kayaking near Vancouver Island.
 
 

A swarm of Jellyfish.
 
 

Kayakers surfing on a tidal wave.  This is not a river.  This is the ocean rushing back into a large set of inlets on a rising tide.  The huge amount of water flows through a small constriction between the ocean and the inlets.  In 6 hours hours the water will be rushing just as fast in the opposite direction.  I estimated the flow at something like 100,000 cfs -- the flow of the Colorado River in a big flood or the normal flow of the Mississippi.  The kayakers had to carry their boats 3 miles to get to this wave.
 
 

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