No reason for sea plane to go in there, page-5

I use to walk into J Creek from the highway
and fish there with a couple of mates
years ago

the aircraft surely could have flown to the end, the western end and then just flown out, up and over as its not steep

for the craft fly into the creek...
it must have been high enough to go over the hills between the take-off and J creek to start with ?

all rather strange and grossly sad