A friend and I hunted Kalgin Island the first year it opened. We started at the north end but concentrated our hunt to the south end of the island. We camped at what I think is called Swamp Creek. Like you, we found the island to be overgrown and swampy. We walked in swamp and sunk up to our hips at times. It was tough. We saw lots of sign and could hear moose in front of us, but we never did get to see one. I think we stayed five days. The last day it was raining so hard, and we were so tired, we just stayed in the tent. It slowed down about noon so we got out and started cooking something to eat. As we were doing this, I looked on the bluff across the creek from us (it is about 75 yards wide at high tide) and a moose was coming down the bluff. It went close to the water and we did not want to shoot it and have it fall in the water. The bluff, as you know, is steep, I really know, I climbed it a few times. Anyway, as we watched, it jumped into the water and started swimming toward us. I figured it hadn't seen us and would turn as soon as it did. This was strange because we were out in the open. It continued to swim straight for us and came up on our side of the creek and walked about 20 feet from the boat and 20 feet from the tent where my friend dropped it. We basically gutted it and set the quarters and ribs in the boat and went home. Pure luck. It was a small one, but what the heck, we had fresh moose that night and it was a "reward" for a lot of hard work. One side note to this hunt was there was a lot of waterfowl that we could have hunted had we been set up for that. The fishing also looked good. Lots of silvers in the creeks up north as well as the one we stayed on. Some of the biggest blue berries I have ever seen were there also. They were mighty tasty.