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    1 year ago

    The lake is the major ecological impact, if you bother to read up on the background of that area.

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      1 year ago

      Fun fact, the beach is made entirely out of barnacles and it smells like someone ate 10 pounds of salmon and then ripped ass straight up your nose. Don’t go in the water, you’ll die!

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        I was there about twenty years ago, the banks were made up of rotting marine life (mostly fish) 12 - 18 inches deep.

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          The barnacles must be a more recent phenomenon, I was there a couple years ago. There were still fish skeletons lying around, but mostly this: