Subject: unusual thalweg junction tripoint pic class e or c<br/>
Date: Aug 02, 2003 @ 01:06<br/>
Author: m donner (&quot;m donner&quot; &lt;maxivan82@hotmail.com&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1550543144">just to hoist another attachment onto the message board while we still can<br/>
here at long last is the pic of caus2camenb i promised when it was fresh in <br/>
message 134<br/>
hahahahaha<br/>
tho back there in the old millennium i was still coding the canadian federal <br/>
waters cr for crown waters<br/>
so i wrote crmenb rather than camenb etc in that message<br/>
but either way it looks like carmen banana is trying to come thru again for <br/>
this possibly final performance<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
the dramatic location is just behind the customs house in calais maine<br/>
at the bottom of the last cataract of the st croix river where it <br/>
practically falls into its tidal estuary<br/>
& this rather good looking map actually marks the thalweg tripoint with a <br/>
vee point<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://test.topozone.com/map.asp?z=19&n=5005158&e=635183&s=24&layer=DRG25">http://test.topozone.com/map.asp?z=19&n=5005158&e=635183&s=24&layer=DRG25</a><br/>
but it isnt an ordinary thalweg junction tripoint<br/>
<br/>
since the thalweg or midchannel is the definition of caus here & of menb up <br/>
to the source of the st croix<br/>
& since the canadian federal seas also by definition meet the provinces & <br/>
territories at the low tide line<br/>
there is a first order binational tripoint here just where the thalweg <br/>
tastes its first brine<br/>
or in other words exactly as accidentally depicted on the map<br/>
& just where all the white water converges to a point at the extreme right <br/>
of the pic<br/>
<br/>
or to put it more accurately & honestly<br/>
i was so intent on jamming all that white water into the picture<br/>
that i inadvertently left the sharpest point of the wedge just barely off <br/>
frame<br/>
oops<br/>
hahaha<br/>
<br/>
i know it is missing because i recall being impressed at how sharp it looked <br/>
in the flesh<br/>
& at how hard i laughed when the photo came back without it<br/>
<br/>
but i take excessive pride in it anyway as a possibly authentic class c <br/>
rather than a class e<br/>
since i had just managed to interrogate the chief border guard about it<br/>
<br/>
hahaha<br/>
thats a switch<br/>
<br/>
& when i had really pinned him to the wall<br/>
he admitted not only that the river was raging a bit higher than usual<br/>
but that this particular low tide was lower than any he had ever noticed in <br/>
his 20 years of service at that location<br/>
<br/>
he was actually quite pleased to notice & claim it<br/>
& impressed enough to stop & admire it with me<br/>
before telling me to just take the picture & get lost or else<br/>
<br/>
so at the levels of normal low water<br/>
both the salty & the fresh<br/>
the point of the wedge would almost certainly have backed upstream enough to <br/>
appear on frame<br/>
<br/>
or at least thats what i have been telling myself<br/>
<br/>
under the right conditions it might be a great one to swim up to or kayak <br/>
down for class b<br/>
<br/>
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