That hit close to my heart
@sallypup (57307)
Centralia, Washington
July 21, 2016 9:33pm CST
A bit ago I saw a report that a couple of people up in northern Minnesota were killed by a storm. I guess technically they were on the other side, in Canada.
I looked at the photo of the little amphibious plane and felt like crying. Two people in a scout camp gone. Up in the Canoe Boundary country.
I spent one crazy summer up there when I was just out of high school. I spent a week on one of the islands up there. I whined my way onto that little plane and there I was, camping, helping to clean up campsites by day, gulping stew made over a campfire in the evening. Loons echoed on the water all around us. The only way off that bit of land was either to go in a canoe, a ranger's boat or further, the plane.
I am sorry those two souls did not make it out of paradise. I guess they wander in another paradise now.
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
23 Jul 16
that's both sad, for them, and a beautiful memory. I used to spend summers in northern Minnesota, I remember the loon's. lovely birds.
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@sallypup (57307)
• Centralia, Washington
23 Jul 16
@Jessicalynnt Lovely, lonely country. No See Um and huge horse flies in the summers. Tall, tall trees. One of our last wildernesses. I'm glad you got to spend time there.
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@celticeagle (157593)
• Boise, Idaho
23 Jul 16
I'm sure that they do. It is funny how things strike us isn't it?
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
22 Jul 16
The way the world is they may truly be in a better place.
@Rohvannyn (3098)
• United States
22 Jul 16
That really does hit close to home. That area really is beautiful - I wish they hadn't gone out in the storm.
@JudyEv (323748)
• Rockingham, Australia
22 Jul 16
That is very sad for those two people but it must have been a wonderful experience for you at the time.