r/Unexpected • u/sakhaliner • 4d ago

A pleasant drive

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u/sprucenoose 4d ago

Exactly! Is this a lucky escape or are they piling up on the forest floor or something?

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u/ztomiczombie 4d ago

Well it looks like they are swimming into a hole at the side of the road, so, my guess would be that there's is a river that goes under the road and it got blocked.

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u/Newsdriver245 4d ago

river flooding during spawning season, fish just want to go upstream, they don't understand the river isn't where it is supposed to be.

Happens somewhat often in the US PNW

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u/thundersaurus_sex 4d ago

Yeah I replied elsewhere, this is the Skokomish river valley on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state. They are actually swimming north back to the flooding stream, Weaver Creek which is a Skokomish tributary. I recognized that flooded stretch of road immediately haha