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Family of Canadian Geese on Bluff, San Juan Island, Washington

A family of Canada geese (Branta canadensis) — two adults and four goslings — feed on a bluff over the water of Smallpox Bay in San Juan County Park on San Juan Island, Washington. Smallpox Bay was named for a smallpox outbreak that killed Indians. Indians who were infected with the disease in Victoria where brought across Haro Straight in 1860 to die near the bay on the west side of San Juan Island.

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A family of Canada geese (Branta canadensis) — two adults and four goslings — feed on a bluff over the water of Smallpox Bay in San Juan County Park on San Juan Island, Washington. Smallpox Bay was named for a smallpox outbreak that killed Indians. Indians who were infected with the disease in Victoria where brought across Haro Straight in 1860 to die near the bay on the west side of San Juan Island.
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