Tropical storm Erica is making her presence felt right across the Caribbean, she is sucking the wind in towards her centre even from this far away, we are about 300 nautical miles(550 kilometres) away. Yesterday we almost had no wind at all and this morning we have a solid 16 to 20 knots (36kph) blowing towards this tropical storm and straight into the bay that we are anchored in, we even have the odd wave and swell coming over the reef giving us a bit of the old rock and roll, our Mantus anchor is holding firm.
We are even missing the rain down here and looking at the weather radar up at the Leeward Islands they are getting heaps, the forecast says that they should get up to 200mm (8 inches) out of this storm.
The youtube video #42 Carriacou to Grenada was a capture of our passage over a month ago, it was a wet start and the conditions made for a bumpy wet ride. The undersea volcano Kickem Jenny was active at the time adding to the hazards we encountered on this trip.
Life is a little bit windy on Annecam.