The sandbar stretched out into the lake, a long peninsula protecting a beautiful bay filled with water as clear as crystal. It was a peaceful place, where huge flocks of ducks and geese floated on rippling waves and loons called out in the distance. On the far side of the bay, a great forest rose up from the shoreline, with oaks and pines looming over the slight bluff that ran along the edge of the lake. There were bears, wolves, and cougars among those trees. At the back of the bay, a sprawling marsh was filled with long reeds and red-winged blackbirds whose full-throated trills pierced the air.
Fascinating, but I'd expect no less from one of the minds behind Canadiana!