All over this area the lakes and rivers are this amazing turquoise-to-jade-to-emerald green.
Like nearly everything about this area, the green color in the water is due to the glaciers. The glaciers grind the rock into tiny tiny particles - someone told me they are the size of the particles in wood smoke - called "rock flour." The glacial runoff carries these tiny particles, rock flour, into the rivers and lakes. The rock flour absorbs most of the colors of spectrum, leaving only these amazing greens to be reflected.
Elaine says this is where she first fell in love with the colors of water, a love that moved easily to the colors of the ocean in our island home.
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