Carol Island, unlike many of the islands we visited along the Inside Passage, was very small. We circled it within fifteen minutes. I composed this landscape image to contrast the jagged rocks at the base of Carol Island with the distant peak in the background. The wispy texture of the clouds, riding in the pale blue sky overhead, echo the bold streaks adjoining the kelp beds in the dark, glistening water. A lone tree leans out of Carol Island, offering its own salute to the scene.