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.