Geo (Gio) Rutherford

I think it's just this idea that water can kill you in like any form, whether it is something that is in a contained body of water or if it's one of these

freak rainstorms like one topic i did last year which was like one of my favorite topics ever which was just about subways that flood because there's like these inundations of water and then where does the water go it goes into the subway systems

The subway systems end up like as literal cave diving scenarios, but I do love rivers.

And actually I'm writing and I already wrote and I'm illustrating spooky rivers.

So I have like spooky lakes and then I'm doing spooky rivers right now.

And then I eventually will do spooky seas.

I visited the Boiling River in Peru in June.

I like just went to the Boiling River with Andres Russo, who is like the scientist who brought the Boiling River to international attention.

But the native people knew about it for a very long time.

But it's an unusual river because it's a river that truly boils where it's like over 200 degrees Fahrenheit.

And if you fall in, people have fallen in, you might not survive because you essentially get like a crazy third degree burn over your whole body.

And it's an interesting place because unlike in Yellowstone, which is also a spooky lake topic, where the water is full of heavy metals and toxins and stuff like that from coming up from a volcanic source, this boiling river in Peru is clean and

which is really weird.

And scientists don't even really 100% understand why that's happening.

Is it because the rock is acting as like a filter?

Is it like what is happening there that's making the water boil and be really clean?

And so we in the morning, we would go down to the river with our teacups and our tea bags.

And you just go and you scoop a cup of water from the river and then you have tea in the morning.

So it's like kind of an incredible place to visit because you can't

do that anywhere else like do not do that anywhere else in the world but you can do it at the boiling river i was gonna say giardia be damned it's because it just kills microbes that might be not great for you yeah so definitely think that rivers are spooky and deserve a lot of like love and attention because they but they just don't i think that like even after writing this book and i'm currently illustrating it