Sunshine in Canada

Arrived at Wilderness Tours a couple of nights ago. I'm sure someone said it was snowing here a few days ago, well if there wasn't still some ice on the ground, and pictures as evidence I wouldn't have believed them. We have bright blue skies and fairly warm temperatures: I've even been walking around without a coat, and despite paddling in the sun for the last couple of weeks at home have already got a pink nose (best get some suncream)! It is due to get warmer at the weekend too (20 degrees predicted).

Unfortunately it is still pretty darn chilly at night (although just about warm enough in a 4 season sleeping bag with fleece liner). At least we are fairly used to paddling in the cold, but the water temperature is particularly freezing - something like sticking your hand in a bucket of ice for a couple of minutes. I feel for some of the Ozzies who are all suffering from the latex neck rash (having only ever paddled in shorty cags)!

The frustrating thing is we have no waves at all to paddle on at the moment. The water is at a level in between any of the good stuff happening, and needs to go up a couple of feet before mini-bus comes in. Hopefully this will be taking place on Monday, or soon after, as the dam company are currently holding back water for us. In the meantime its quite useful to just acclimatise to the water temp.

Yesterday I reversed our nice, shiny (but particularly small) hire car into a tree - ooops. It may have been 10ft tall, but it was really (really) skinny and I'm pretty sure it wasn't there when I drove in forwards the night before, so I didn't see it. Thankfully it was merely a flesh wound (to the tree), and just a small - but significant - flaking of paint on the bumper. I'm pretty sure a touch of red nail varnish will conceal it perfectly, unfortunately I left all my nail varnish at home! We'll fix it somehow.

I'll hopefully update more, with pictures, when the waves have started working.