Boy, it sure likes to rain here!
06 June 2015
Bill/ Raining again
When I got up this morning, the bow was facing north. Not the normal direction. Thirty minutes later we had reversed. Thirty minutes later we were facing north again. Now, we are facing northeast it the rain has started again. The clouds just build up over the mountains ashore and once full, they just let go. Sometimes big and sometimes just a sprinkle but each day, we will have a good 3 to 4 showers. The clouds have settled into the valley of the shoreline and it looks like it's going to be, at least this morning, a rainy day. I didn't have time to put up the side panels on the dodger/bimini so the cockpits a tad wet. Sometime today, I have to run the generator so lets hope the rain lessens during the day, plus we have to go ashore now that the two day holiday is over and get our internet straightened out. It's always something keeping us busy.
We headed into town in Puff about 1030 to get the internet straightened out. After waiting in line for a while, when I finally sat down with one of the employees, I found out that I'd used all 2.5 gigs on my plan just trying to get caught up on what we had missed while we were getting here. I needed to get my account topped up. In our travels, we've found cheap Internet and expensive but the Seychelles is the most expensive to date. We purchased the largest internet plan we could, not that there was any price savings in doing it that way, it just ment that we would have to go in less often to get topped up again. The plan I'm on is for ten gigs of usage at a price of just about $15.00US per gig!!!!! Now we've been out of the US for quite some time but I can't imagine prices back home are that bad. We'd heard some things were expensive out here and Internet service is close to the top of the list. We will be using it sparingly while we are here and I'll be using my Iridium GO for post to the blog and emails. It might not save us a lot of money but since that service is already prepaid, it can't hurt. If someone out there has any idea what Internet it going at in their country, please post it on my blog. I'd love to see how much it costs. I think the Philippines has been the cheapest so far.
As we waited on getting everything taken care of, it started to rain and not just a mist or sprinkles like we had on Wednesday. This was a firehouse set on high. It poured! I will say one thing for the Seychelles, they have great drainage on their streets. Not a street was flooded. We walked for one portico to the next after leaving the store trying to dodge the rain as well as the umbrellas everyone was carrying. We stopped in a nice restaurant four lunch and the rains continued. It was still raging when we got back to Puff for the trip back. We had a good five inches of rain in the bottom of Puff. Once we got going, I pulled the plug in the stern and most of the water flowed out as we raced along. We took a side trip back to Eden Island to visit their grocery store. Quite up scale as the neighborhood calls for and we bought a few things to bring back to an amazingly dry boat. It rains in town today but not where we are at anchor. --------------050406000200010301090707--