Patrick used inflatable canoes to float down the East Fork of the Ayakulik. Here they are floating out of the small valley where the East Fork starts and out onto the swampy flats by the main branch of the Ayakulik. This area is a huge swamp. Swans breed here, and a few of them were confused by Patrick's white teepee. From the air it looked like another huge swan to them! They would circle and honk. Patrick and his friends wanted to see the reindeer that live on the flats but never found them. The reindeer are domisticated animals that escaped and went wild in the 1940s.
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