4 August 1999 • work cell afternoon until 6:00 • halted by a sudden thunderstorm I shelter under a kayak shirt • soaking wet I paddle downriver in pouring rain to make camp • with JL • DR • BV • after dark a flotilla of 10 Pelicans move downriver on the current • the ghostly form changes shape, breaks up and reassembles like ectoplasm on the dark surging water •