Funny how Mother Nature can throw us for loop, even–maybe, especially–when we think we have her figured out.
Norman Strickland of Burgeo, Newfoundland and Labrador, learned that lesson last Saturday, a lesson he’s still digesting.
Now 67 and retired, Strickland grew up hard by the Atlantic Ocean, making his living as a fisherman, helping to raise a family of four children with his wife, Eileen, and living what many of us city dwellers picture as something of an ideal life.
But as any farmer or fisherman will tell you, Mother Nature has her own rules,
Midway Saturday morning, Strickland, his daughter Elizabeth, known in the family as Bet, and their family dog, Sadie, set forth in their 5.5-metre (18 ft.) boat on what was supposed to be a relaxed cod-fishing expedition.
It turned out to be anything but. (See Lynn Desjardins’ July 12 story on RCI.)
I spoke by phone to Strickland at his home in Burgeo on Tuesday.
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