Finally a break!
09 June 2015
The rains have finally let up and then the winds came. All day Sunday, it rained and it rained a lot. We filled buckets on deck that then got poured into our tanks. It finally let up late Sunday night. Then the winds came. At just after 0100, after several hours of quiet with no rain, Mother Nature let loose again. Twenty to twenty five and stronger and it just kept blowing. All through the rest of the night and throughout most of Monday, it just blew and with the wind, the swells started building. In the end, we had over a meter swell running past Zephyr as we launched Puff to run some"must do" errands. We needed to scope out boat yards for a boat that's in Chagos in need of repairs. They may come here or they may have to go to Mauritius instead depending on what their insurance lets them do. Don't know but just trying to give a fellow cruiser some info. While running around in Puff, we stopped in at the local Airtel internet store to get our SIM card/dongle straightened out. The clerk that had helped us on Saturday had.set us up on a " post pay"account instead of a "prepaid" account. It took some work and emails by the new salesperson that was now helping us. In the end, since it was taking so long that we went to the deli at the local market called "Spar". I had Lamb Curry on rice and Tracy had Sweet and Sour Chicken also on rice. Many of the locals were there getting their food as eating at a restaurant on Eden Island is quite expensive. By early afternoon, the problems with our internet account was resolved and we headed off for the boat yards. We met the General Manager one of the yards and he gave us a nice tour. He just moved to the Seychelles from South Africa via Mauritus a few months ago and was settling in with his wife. He had her take us to a legendary French bakery close by where we got our first loaves of French Bread. We were set for a nice dinner snack. Once we had finished out tour, we headed back to Zephyr in the same 20 knot+winds and meter seas. We got Puff back on board and settled in for the night. We did have the French bread with Boursin cheese and part of a bottle of nice red wine for "dinner". It's been a long time since either of us has had bread, let alone cheese and wine. We both suffered with indigestion for the rest of the night but it sure was good and went down easy.
At just after 0130, after a quiet spell that had since early evening, the winds came again. Not continually but in short spurts. We'd found that over the last week in all the winds that we had had that we had actually drug our anchor so we took a few minutes and pulled up and reset the anchor back to where we had started a week ago. With it now starting to blow again, we reset our "anchor drag"alarm and set it at the stern of the bed. It reads our position via GPS so we knew where we were at all time. It would blow for 20 minutes and then stop. Over and over again through out the night. Forty minutes of calm and twenty minutes of raging winds. Gee want a fun night. --------------060805050009090207090908--