Glacier Island and the Capsizing Kayak

Scott and I were in the interior of a large Island, It was all forest covered with a large swampy plane in the middle of a mountainous circle. We were inidially thinking it was volcanic, but upon closer inspection it had the signs of having been scoured by the retreating and melting of a glacier. We hiked far enoungh inland to reach the tree line and look up into the mountains where we could see the remains of a small glaicer.

"There's something you don't see every day" I said.

"Unless you live here" added Scott.

We hiked over to where the various runoff streams from the glacier joined a small swampy lake before rolling though the valley to the sea. We dropped our kayak into the water and rowed downstream.

As we rounded a bend in the forest stream we heard a loud roaring and found ourselves being drawn towards an unexpected waterfall. We went over the falls into the ocean and were tossed from the kayak in the process. I could see the kayak drifting along the ocean bottom, so we followed it along the beach to a nearby cove. It grew dark while we were following the kayak. The water was just a bit too deep for me to dive down to it.

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