By Zuerrnnovahh-Starr Livingstone
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Dec. 14, 2003

Ken,

On August 31 2003, I finally was able to arrange to borrow a 14 foot boat to make the long trip to the north end of Shuswap Lake. It was the final Sunday of August and there were houseboats and powerboats everywhere. Some of these house boats are 70 feet long. The powerboats have huge motors for making the long trips up remote Seymour and Anstey Arms in less than two hours. My boat did not have twin 100 HP motors like those deluxe watercraft. It takes a week to explore the lake by house boat. A houseboat requires six hours to travel to the northern reachs, starting from the town of Sicamous. From Salmon Arm add three hours. With the 7.5 horsepower motor the gifting of Octohedronal Holy Handgrenades would take the whole day.

I took six Octos and having used a map showing the depths of the lake I knew where the deepest sections were. The lake averages 300 feet deep with one spot in Seymour Arm where it is 600 feet deep. It was going to take me four hours to get there.

Eight thousand years ago two glaciers a mile thick carved out the U-shaped valleys of Shuswap Lake. The ice actually rounded the tops of the 4000 foot mountains surrounding the lake and now those mountains are covered with fir, larch and cedar trees. The two glaciers met at one point and there now a passage between the two valleys which the lake fills. On a map the lake looks like an H-shaped chromosome. The connection or "Centromere" is called Cinnemousun Narrows. Although swallow compared to the rest of the lake an Octo was going in there. Another gifting point was the deepest part of Anstey Arm and a deep place near Copper Island. The last two Octos would go there the "guides" showed.

Leaving the channel at Sicamous I passed near the mouth of Eagle River and as advertised several eagles were plunging from great heights into the estuary and catching trout. They were osprey. I have seen bald and golden eagles there previously.

Thirty minutes later I passed Marble Point where Indian Petroglyphs are carved into the steep cliffs of the east wall of the valley.

The weather was sunny with over one hundred miles visibility. The smoke from forest fires north of Kamloops and Chase was blown to the north. It was the forest fires which ultimately motivated me to make the long trip. The temperature was about 75 degrees F. and according to the weather charts the jetstream was directly overhead traveling from southwest to northeast the same direction I was going after leaving Marble Point.

Above I could see the long thin wispy clouds which sometimes accompany the jetstream. Below the stratospheric clouds were seven thicker parallel bands which had eddied off the bottom of the 300 mph winds into the thicker air of the upper troposphere. At the furthest extent of these bands, where they ended, were spiralling vortexes like the heads, shoulders and front legs of galloping horses. The visual effect was as if seven fast horses were separately reined to the jetstream and pulling the weather changing winds where they whilst go. I reached out in consciousness and felt that the vortexes were seven ancient sylphs. Upon recognition of the ancient ones I got a gentle energy pulsation from head to toe. Most people called this energy the "shivers", but to me they were not in the least cold. The majesty of the spectacle was incredible. As I was looking at the sky a powerboat passed nearby and nearly swamped me.

At the last moment I turned into the wake and aluminum boat spanked hard into the waves and troughs. The motor immediately quit.

Half an hour later I was still unable to start the motor. I eat my lunch and started rowing back to Sicamous. >From the depth charts there was about 350 to 400 feet of water below the boat. I dropped one Octo and saw it spiral downward about thirty feet before I lost sight of it. I could "hear" it get louder as the pressure of the water increase on its triangular faces. It took three or four minutes to reach bottom. I continued rowing and dropped an Octo every hundred or so yards until all six formed a line on the lake bottom in th middle of the channel directly east of Aline Hill. I listened to the singing Octos as I poured a cup of coffee from a thermos. This is exactly where the Octos needed to be. The cluster gifting, over gifting, was doing powerful things. As always my intent was the healing and balancing of nature. The forests of British Columbia were burning with over 800 separate fires.

It would take me until sunset to return to Sicamous by rowing. I could flag down another boat for a tow, but no one had passed near me since the powerboat which had nearly swamped me! I overpressurized the gas from the nearly full gas can, pulled the cord and the motor started. I slowly increased the throttle and at the half speed position the motor quit again. After trial and error I found that the motor operated best at one third throttle.

Two hours later near Sicamous the ospreys were still fishing and a number of boaters videotaped the dives and catches.

The next week there was a trace of rain but not enough. The Kelowna fire was then in the process of destroying 300 homes. Then a cooling trend came in and finally rain. Actually many parts of BC especially the Fraser Valley and Whistler were flooded. The fall was wet and now just before Christmas (December 14th) there is a foot of snow around Shuswap Lake, elevation 1150 feet and two to three feet at 4000 foot elevation. It is a normal winter. The ski hills are doing a great business.

It looks a lot like Christmas around here.

Zuerrnnovahh-Starr Livingstone

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