The Canada Day holiday fell on a Wednesday this year, so we decided to take the Wednesday to Friday off and make a 5-day long weekend of it. Sam, Lauren, Evelyn and Baby Hugo joined us for a couple of those days. This was our rainiest weekend of 2020, so warning; lots of photos of rain to follow.
It rained like hell the first three days and nights we were there. We had to set the tent up in the rain, and it soaked through the bottom almost instantly (we’ve never had anything like that happen before!). This is also the first time we’ve ever had to put a tarp over the tent, and we were very lucky the park host loaned us one of his personal tarps to put over the tent as we had just started getting some dripping through the seams in the top of the tent. Our site became ‘Tarp City’ for those first three torrential days.
During a break in the rain on Thursday, we all jumped in the canoes to do a lap of the lake. This was baby Hugo’s second time in the canoe, but there was no worry of him getting too much sun out in the open lake on this day.
We had a pretty lazy weekend with lots of rainy walks and sitting around the campfire, keeping warm, drying clothes, and reading under the tarps. We all invested in new, good rain gear after previous camping trips were a bit miserable because of the rain. Chris has never really had proper rain gear, so to have the waterproof pants and good boots made such a difference. Not just this weekend, as we wore our gear pretty much every weekend this summer that we were camping.
The sun finally came out on Sunday, and we took the canoe out for a paddle. We jumped out at a remote island for a very refreshing swim in the shallow water, and it almost made up for the three days of crap weather before that. Almost…
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