Okay, Space Cadets! Are you ready to hurtle through the cosmos? Come listen to our galactic story of celestial collision! Examine the evidence of astronomic impact! Thrill to the tale of...okay, I'm out of space references.
You see, there's a Crotch Lake legend that years ago a meteorite crashed here at the lake. Between the upper and lower lake there's a narrow channel called The Narrows. That's the crotch of Crotch Lake. The two halves of the lake are the legs, I guess. Stormy Point is an area just at the entrance to The Narrows. Call it the left hip pocket.
So the story goes that this meteorite fell out of the sky and crashed onto Stormy Point. And as you're undoubtedly aware from your own experiences with re-entering the earth's atmosphere, the meteorite was extremely hot. So it created a fire that began burning the vegetation on Stormy Point. Well, at least one man saw it happen, and he - possibly with the help of others - began pouring water on the fire and got it under control. Having a lake a few feet away can really come in handy!
You realize what that all represents. A giant ball impacting with a crotch.
Unfortunately, America's Funniest Videos was still many years away, but now proudly continues the tradition of crotch injury to this day, making untold millions for those lucky enough to video tape the event. If only someone had video taped the meteorite. A crotch injury of celestial proportions!
Anyway, the meteorite cooled and remains on Stormy Point to this day. We visited it recently and took the boys to see and touch it. It is a round ball of rock that looks different than the rocks around it. It is a slightly different color than the rest, and is rough and porous to the touch, whereas the rock around it is smoothed by thousands of years of wind, rain, LOTS of snow, and waves lapping upon it. There are those who doubt that it is a meteorite at all, and they could be correct. But as I lay my hand on it and thought, this could have come from space, it was a pretty cool feeling. How many years had it sailed through space? How cold had it been? How big had it been at its beginning? How much of it had burned up upon re-entry?
And of course, Who started it on its path, knowing that it would eventually land in the middle of the crotch of Crotch? And Who also knew that in 2009 there would be a musician named Derek who would be sitting in his camper writing about it? God knows the answers to all these questions. He knows and understands every detail about everything. The Bible says the hairs of my head are all numbered. Sure, that's a smaller number now than it used to be, but it's still more than I can count. He put that meteorite in space, and sent it on a path that would land it at this wilderness lake in Ontario at the time when it did. And He knows how many other meteors are still flying around the universe, which ones will join us on our planet, and which ones will never encounter another thing in the incredible vastness of space.
Far out!
