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Allen Island, across the narrow channel (~400') from Benner. Both islands are former Wyeth family holdings now owned by Colby College. 5 miles offshore. The school provides several free moorings for transient sailors in the channel.

We were able to go ashore on Allen with prior arrangement. The house with the Mansard roof is where student workers bunk.

Serene.


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June Lake, Jan 2017.
 
Deception Pass Bridge, 10/25/25. No color manipulation here, the water really is an odd color.
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Interesting, and your post prompted me to read a little. It looks like Canadian silt lakes, but that does not seem to be the case here.

Also, I found out that there is a cold water reef under that bridge.
 
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Deception Pass Bridge, 10/25/25. No color manipulation here, the water really is an odd color.
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Temple Crag and Second Lake, Eastern Sierra, CA
The water gets it from glacier melt beyond the ridge.

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Palisades and Glacier. The prominent peak on the left is Mt. Sill (14,159').

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View from the top of Mt. Sill. Temple Crag is partially on the right and Second Lake is behind it.

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Me on top of Mt. Sill. It's not the highest in the chain.

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Temple Crag and Second Lake, Eastern Sierra, CA
The water gets it from glacier melt beyond the ridge.

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Palisades and Glacier. The prominent peak on the left is Mt. Sill (14,159').

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View from the top of Mt. Sill. Temple Crag is partially on the right and Second Lake is behind it.

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Me on top of Mt. Sill. It's not the highest in the chain.

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If I gotta rope up, I don't wanna go. But I totally get why others DO.

We also have a number of lakes around here that are colored from glacial silt as well, but Deception Pass is salt water, and it's a clear shot to the West down the Straight of Juan de Fuca to the Pacific ocean. There is a river that dumps in on the East side but it's just muddy, so I don't know why this narrows is unusually colored.
 
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