http://www.lakesofmaine.org/maps/satellite_9789_Glazier_Lake.pdf
So I am from New Brunswick, Canada. Last year I went camping for the first time. I climbed Mount Carleton, the highest peak in the Province and the only one I had heard of because, even though I grew up here, I never did anything outdoorsy because I was terrified of bugs. Not kidding.
Anyway, last year, after a year of serious soul-searching and healing with the help of any emotional/spriritual teachings I could find combined with my own choice on discernment, I felt I was finally ready to do some things I never would have even considered doing before. Camping and climbing a fucking mountain were at the top of that list.
And I did it. A couch potato climbed a fucking mountain. :) The act itself defied physical reason and logic, I guarantee you that. According to science and known facts I should have had a heart attack and collapsed about a quarter of the way up. And I didn't. That was the first personal miracle I witnessed! LOL
Anyway, on to the point, this summer I've decided to explore my own backyard a little more and go to all four corners of the Province on camping trips to see what else I can discover that I didn't know. It's barely costing us anything too. We live in the centre of the Province and each corner from here is only a 3 hour drive. So we've done one nighters. No major planning, just going and seeing what happens when we get there. It's fun. We did the NE corner this weekend, an Island called Miscou Island with a location named Wilson's Point (my maiden name is Wilson and Miscou is located in French New Brunswick, so a place called Wilson's Point sticks out like a sore thumb. And I like it. :) ) Last month we went to Grand Manan Island, the SW corner.
This afternoon I started looking on Google Earth at the NW corner to start pondering about that trip which we plan to take before the end of September.
I see a lot of geographical ME's. I don't even bother posting them anymore. The changes are small and subtle and everywhere. One of the tells I've come across is when you notice a water area but Google Earth shows it as grey instead of blue and you zoom in and it's a bizarre morph of various images. If you then go through each image layer by year, you can sometimes see some pretty interesting things between imagery from 20-30 years ago to now. And before long you go back to it and the current reality fits nicely into place and the past imagery has also changed to catch up.
Blows my fucking mind.
Now the NW part of the Province is very french as well and I know nothing about it other than the main highways going to Quebec or Maine completely bypass this "panhandle" part. If you aren't intending to go there, you never will. So I just assumed it was remote and it is.
When I first started picking terms to Google while I looked at the map I found an obscure reference from 1996 about a place called Glazier Lake and the importance of "eco-tourism". The article talked about Glazier Lake Park and there was even a picture of the sign. So I started googling that and nothing was coming up. Google was clearly searching for "glacier" instead too or "glasier". BUT YouTube was searching strictly what I typed in and I found a video from 2008.
In the video, the guy talks about a canoe trip he takes with a guide named Guy along Glazier Lake to an Island called Werewolf Island where they were served an outdoor/camping style meal and then taken back to the mainland. All of this is on the Canadian side of the border, FYI.
Here's the video:
So I go back to Google Earth to have a look at this Werewolf Island that is supposed to be on Glazier Lake because this video clearly shows it was there in 2008.
And, lo and behold, there is NO island on that Lake. So I decided to go back through each of the historical aerial/satellite imagery and look for irregularities and boy did I find one. You can see the details in the screenshot of coordinates, scale and year of imagery in the top left corner. The yellow line is the US-Canada border (north is Canada, south is US).
Here are the links to each of the imagery shots keeping your awareness on the general "shape" of the lake and see if you notice anything off about the 2012 picture:
2007: http://imgur.com/a/WThVg
2011: http://imgur.com/a/ovByX
2012: http://imgur.com/a/OpayN
2013: http://imgur.com/a/vLy3L
The 2012 image was taken December 4, 2012 and in that pic you can see the ice covering the lake. But as you pass through each of them, there's an area on this particular image that makes no sense whatsover on the western end of the lake, it looks off on the shape of the lake compared to the others. In this case it's a black spot rather than a grey spot.
I zoomed in closer to show you. Take a close look at the image (this is the western side of the Lake). Why is there a large black section that is clearly not land but clearly not water either or it would be white with ice like the rest of the Lake?
Here it is, see for yourselves: http://imgur.com/a/GBuU3
Can anyone explain this? Was there an island there called Werewolf Island and now it has disappeared? If so, why is it on the US side rather than the Canadian side as explained in the video? Is it blacked out because nobody remembers it? Will it appear again now that we are aware of it? Or is that the deep part he mentions in the video and there is a heat source below preventing that one small section from freezing over?
I posted a comment on the video to ask him where exactly Werewolf Island was on the lake, if he remembers. We'll see if he responds.
I have no idea but it's fun and I have every intention of going there within the next few weeks. I'm hoping Werewolf Island is back by then, how cool would that be???
I should really go on a full moon... :)