Pitkävesi

The great central arm of Berg Cradle Bay was a deep, narrow channel called Pitkävesi, the "Longwater", which reached northward almost to Evermist. Pitkävesi was home to some of the oldest berg-delvings of the Merimetsästäjät. Once a berg was forced into the narrow channel, it often became grounded in one of the shallower inlets along the eastern shores of the Pitkävesi. There the berg remained until an unusually high tide lifted it to resume its endless journey. The summer current of Belegaer was too weak to draw these bergs out of the narrow-mouthed channel, so it was primarily the early gales of autumn, before the bay freezed over, that forced them out of the Pitkävesi and into the main gulf of the Berg Cradle.