The ledges on the Grande Chute of the Dumoine River were a great place to swim. The bottom was rough with large boulders but the back eddy spilled a constant flow of water over you if you hung on to the rocks on the edge of the current. I wanted to record the place and maybe capture some of the fun I enjoyed painting and swimming in that pool. The air mass was still hot and humid as one would expect with the southwesterly flow right off the Gulf of Mexico.
There was a little rocky island that separated the Dumoine rapids into two branches. The trees on this island would be in grave danger during the spring run-off. It was surprising that there was anything rooted to this hunk of Canadian Shield rock. The paired paintings of
#2150 "Grande Chute Ledge Torrent" and
#2151 "Grande Chute Cataract" required a third in order to keep them in balance. That was the intent to paint this view of the rocky island.
The thunderstorms developed as expected. Mark and I got very wet but it did not matter much as we were wet from swimming anyway. All of our gear got very wet as well. The lightning got within a few kilometres but the heavier thunderstorms remained well to the south.
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