This scene shows the canoe being unloaded from the fishing boat at the river mouth. I'm the person to the far right on the image. The difficulties of trying to move 4 people and their equipment with only one canoe in such primitive terrain caused us to revise our plans. The 4000-foot diameter lake in the center of Mecatina crater has a compelling circular shape. The image below is a mosaic of approximately 22 individual aerial photographs and shows the lake and the region that surrounds it.
North is to the top.
Gold and Voight took the horizontal mosaic below from the southern shore of the lake. It shows a field of view that is about 180 degrees in width. Although I did not reach the lake, I had the opportunity to rent an airplane equipped to make landings on the water. The airplane flew me over the lake so I could provide oblique aerial photographic views to the study. At the time, I was working near the mouth of the Mecatina River primarily out of the town of Mutton Bay, a portion of which is visible in the background of the photograph below.