Wawa to Agawa Bay! July 6/14 ride.

It was a drizzly and wet ride most of the way to Agawa Bay. Beautiful when you could see the shorelines but most of the time everything, including the road, was concealed by low cloud and fog. Old Woman Bay looked like something off the West coast of Vancouver Island. The only thing missing was the smell of rotting seaweed. West coasters know that smell. Riding into Agawa had me coming down out of the clouds and into the fog. The bay was clear enough but you could see heavy thunder clouds coming towards us with a really strange, short, low frequency kind of rumble I'm not used to. But holy Lake Superior Thunder Storms, when it hit it was right over us. Not the the long, low rumbles of a Kootenay storm but a barrage of what seemed never ending claps. Then the rain started. I'm not normally happy camping on sand, just to messy, but thank you for it's drainage. The rain came down in huge gobs for about half an hour and we could have been sitting in pools of it. I watched from my tent as single strait bolts struck the water then battened up when the rain hit. It was getting dark by now an sleep wasn't going to be easy with lightning striking what seemed to be all around us. As quickly as it started it was over. Silence. Interestingly, four or five lightning bugs that found refuge under my fly started to flash their tails on and off when the rain stopped. Just a little excitement to end the day.