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Water Photo of the Week: A Bay Called Useless

July 21, 2012February 6, 2015

Usefulness depends on your perspective – a lesson from Useless Bay When Captain Vancouver and his crew scrawled the words Useless Bay across their map, the name made good sense to them. For a ship the size of Discovery, this wide, shallow bay with a sand bottom provided nothing – no place to land and get to…

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