Monday, July 03, 2006

Have kayak, will travel


Drove up last Thursday to Spray Lake and camped for 3 nights. I'd still be there if I didn't have to work on Monday. Oh, and also for the fact that I hadn't showered in four days and couldn't take my own stank any longer.

This was my first time attempting to camp on a long weekend and the campground filled up fast. But with one spot under our belt, the rest pitched their tents in overflow and set up camp (no pun intended) on our site. It was fun for me to watch the hussle and bussle around the site as everyone did their own thing. Felt a bit like one big happy family....like the Brady bunch or the misunderstood Addams family. Can I be Marsha Brady?

Kudos to my sister Farah, who just entered here 9th month of pregnancy, for not letting such a trivial circumstance stop her. Three words, 'state of mind'. I even had a hard time keeping up with her as she hiked up hillsides and manouvered accross waterfalls.

I went kayaking every day in Spray Lake and it was pure bliss. At times it was just me and nature without another person in sight. Surrounded by mountains I would float in the middle of the lake and let the whisper of the water take me away. And just as I was about to enter the calming state of meditation and leave reality for a brief moment, the sickening sound of someone in a motorized water vehicle disturbed nature's poetic silence to remind me that there's no escape. Argh!

The rest of the weekend was filled with the usual camping joys. Camping by yourself and with others are two very different experiences. When I'm by myself I relish the quiet mornings but when I'm with others, my favorite thing is the campire huddle at night. This weekend was no exception. I especially enjoyed when the instuments came out and also the gut wrenching laughs that this group inspired in me.

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