I Should Have Been a weatherman.

I guess in order to be PC and Gender Neutral the title should say Meteorologist or WeatherPerson instead of Weatherman, but everyone knows what I mean. My favorite CBC Radio personality is Johanna Wagstaff the meteorologist. Is it normal have a favorite CBC radio personality?

Last week I went kayaking for a few days on Alouette Lake and we had some Weather! All the weather! It rained torrential monsoons followed by epic winds, hail, thunder and lightening and sunshine. The clouds were wispy, low, cumulus, every shade of grey from blue to purple, threatening and entertaining.

One tent flooded in the night, saved by a resourceful tarp erection in a storm. Wet jackets were stretched on a line to dry in the wind, sleeves billowing at 90 degrees, hurriedly gathered up every time the rain started and stretched out again when it stopped. Ah, Weather!

The wind blew hard enough to topple a 6 inch diameter tarp post at 2 in the morning, landing awkwardly on my camp stove and waking me up from a deep sleep. I struggled out of my tent flinging on a damp rain jacket to check on the damage and get reassurance that the boats were secure. The rain had stopped and the wind had cleared away the clouds to present a star filled night sky. Lovely Weather!

Out for a shoreline hike scavenging for firewood to fill our Ikea bags we were startled by a brief shower of hail. WTF Weather?!

After a windy beach day we were rewarded with a calm clear warm sunset paddle. Thank you Weather!

We sat around the campfire eating our dinner being chased by directionally challenged smoke, in the eye of the storm the wind switched from south westerlies to north easterlies and 40 minutes later back to south westerlies bringing rolling storm clouds and thunder echoing in mountains above our heads. Noisy Weather!

An early morning rise, breakfast and pack up had us paddling home, coffee mugs bungied to our decks on flat calm water …until the last 3kms …then we got one more gust of Weather and paddled into white capped waves and a head wind for the last hour. A reminder that the Weather makes the rules.

I love Weather.