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Peekaboo island: the floating forest confounding nature watchers in western Canada

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Peekaboo island: the floating forest confounding nature watchers in western Canada

The 500ft-long, heavily forested land mass surprises locals by popping up on Williston Lake in British Columbia A thickly forested island appeared mysteriously on a western Canadian lake.

Nearly 500 feet long and 250 feet wide, the land mass took locals and experts by surprise.

It wasn’t on any maps or navigation charts.

One boater approached and took a video of the island, capturing nearly 100 trees undulating in the chop of the lake.

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