In Wyoming, a few miles south of Yellowstone National Park,
flows a stream called Pacific Creek.
•Why is it so named?
At Moran, Wyoming, it flows into the Snake River.
The Snake flows through Idaho,
then at Kennewick, Washington, it flows into the Columbia River.
After becoming the state line between Washington & Oregon,
near Ilwaco, Washington, it flows into the Pacific Ocean.
•That's why.
In Wyoming, a few miles south of Yellowstone National Park,
flows a stream called Atlantic Creek.
•Why is it so named?
In Teton Wilderness, Wyoming, it flows into the Yellowstone River.
The Yellowstone River flows through Montana,
then at Buford, North Dakota, it flows into the Missouri River.
After flowing through and between some other states,
at St. Louis, Missouri, it flows into the Mississippi River.
After forming some other state lines,
near Pilottown, Louisiana, it flows into the Gulf Of Mexico,
which is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean.
•That's why.
I didn't start the story at the beginning:
Both the Pacific Creek & the Atlantic Creek start on the Continental Divide.
That's no surprise. The oddity is that they flow from the same source.
North Two Oceans Creek divides, forming these two branches.
So . . . the Pacific and the Atlantic are actually connected . . .
by water . . . across the middle of the continent!
Does that mean that if I have a small enough craft,
I can travel this route between the two oceans by water?
HERE is my conclusion. . . .