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CHAPTER 5 Sea River Falls

THREE QUARTERS OF THE WAY across Sea River Falls on the Nelson River there is a small, rocky island with a few trees clinging desperately to its tenacious clumps of earth. The island separates the main flow from a tumultuous torrent rushing through a chute about ten metres wide. In capable hands, a canoe could be safely paddled down the main rapid, right beside the island’s east rock. An expert could probably take one down the chute and survive. The York boat, however, was too big for the narrow channel on the main rapid. It would have to go down the chute on the west side of the island. Rowing it in that narrow maelstrom would be nearly impossible. We would have to track it, or handline, from the island. Every possible man would be needed on the ropes.