Lakes: Alice Lake (layover)

The wind was up. I didn't feel like pushing my luck with white-caps. And Alice was a big piece of water. The wind was out of the southwest and to strong for me to paddle cross-wind until I got to the south side. If I paddled into the wind I could have gotten into some serious trouble in open water.

Storms were predicted and I didn't care to be caught in them or some poor campsite. Storm warnings followed and I watched a lightning show like no other over what I figured to be Lake Three and Insula. The wind was howling at times and bitter. Later on in the day it was not very comforting to listen to the weather radio and hear, “Take cover immediately! Go indoors! Stay away from windows!” The rumble of thunder was constant. It was quite a set of storms. I put my hammock near my campsite and strung my rain fly over it. Read a book while it rained and howled in the trees. Not much wind at all at the campsite. But it wasn't. Did some fishing as well in the protected bays on the northeast side of Alice and into the narrows. Didn't catch anything.

The weather let up and nature's magic show came alive. I took a lot of pictures and it was the one time I was happy I lugged my 35mm. And the one time I was sad I left my tripod. A few of the photos I had to do some HDR handheld. Have not processed them though.