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| © September '11 by smck |
One of the many small lakes along the shore barriered from the sea by low lying beds of stone, gravel, boulders, clay, and sand covered with opportunistic grasses, wild roses, wild peas,and small storm bonsaied spruce. Over years the scene changes as great storms deposit heaps of wave tossed stones and close exit guts with debris and in turn old closed guts give way when the shore lakes fill too deeply and the pressure pushes yet again to the sea - often in an amazingly short period of time.
Once in the late 70's I drove my then fairly new Blazer down the shore a little farther eastward toward St. Esprit Lake and across a reasonably firm closed gut - one that in the newness of this area to me then that I didn't even know was a previous exit of St Esprit Lake to the ocean. We parked high on the beach and my several friends and I spent a few pleasant hours exploring old drumlin hills along the shore. We started to return, driving easily in the sandy rocky shore in four-wheel drive. As we crossed the old gut I suddenly felt the truck start to bog and tremble slightly. As I pulled into four-wheel low I yelled for them to get out and push and luckily they did. In only a minute or so of creeping four-wheel low we were back onto firmer ground while behind us the gut let go with a roar, the waters rushing, tumbling sand and small boulders out into the ocean. I'm sure we would have survived if we had been on that stretch of beach that was now a wide several feet deep of lake water rushing headlong into the sea - but the Blazer would have been a loss.
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