BOBILLIER, MARCEL (5A) (112 ENGLISH)
The baby is noisy and its mother has a difficult time to calm it down. We charm it by making many echoing sounds which the rocks send back to us. This distracts us because, while the boat is advances, the trip feels as though it goes very slowly; furthermore we expect to cover 70 miles in this our first trip.
In the evening we dine on a long
sandy beach, sitting on uprooted trees deposited there by the
current.
Then we continued on. Towards
11o’clock, it got cold. We were looking for a shelter in which to
spend the night. We had not reached the
goal which we had expected, Coffee Creek, but we were close. Under a group of pines, having az mattress of
squirrels’ nests, we raised our mosquito
tents and slept very calmly and quietly at the bottom of the
valley.
At 5 o’clock I awoke everyone. Mary prepared tasty breakfast and then we
left. The morning is ideal. Before reaching Coffee Creek, three quarters
of an hour later, we passed through the mouth of the gold-bearing Bellerat
Creek. A black bear appeared above the
banks of a few hundred feet and shaking its large head, it watched us pass by,
no doubt stunned that something so strange was floating in an eddy of the middle
of the river.
In the middle of the afternoon the heat
became heavy on our open boat and everyone
was asleep spread-eagled across the baggage while Oscar and I keep a vigil at the helm.
In the meantime, I took photos of a moose
eating along the shore. Since our boat
made no noise whatsoever we were able to get close to the moose. It was a young female student who also was
looking at us float by without scaring her but who disappeared as soon as I
raised my voice to thank her for her kindness.
A bit later, we passed the White river which is very wise at its mouth,
but not very deep. It comes down
directly form the glacier and from the St. Elie massif, more precisely from
Mount Logan, the highest mountain in Canada.
Its’ water is full of mud and silt and will continue to be muddy until it
enters the Bering Strait.
REF: WRITTEN BY FATHER BOBILLIER
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