Monday, April 8, 2013

We sailed up here yesterday from Raccoon Cay where we spent the last couple of days, waiting out a cold front. On Friday night at Raccoon Cay we were treated to the most spectacular lightning display I've ever seen. Fortunately all the action was happening in the distance, but we saw a lot of cloud-to-cloud lightning in chains, streaks, zig-zags, forks, circles, vertical and horizontal. Some streaked to the surface, lighting up our bay like daylight for an instant and temporarily blinding us. The thunder was magnificent: booming, rolling, crashing. Tremendous bass notes that vibrated our chests. It was alternately exhilarating and terrifying, and lasted all night and into the morning, most of it off to the west and south of us.

On Saturday we snorkled the reefs inside Man O' War cove, and they were lovely. Among other things we saw the largest spotted moray eel we've seen yet, and a couple of very large barracuda that followed us a short way. We were joined by Liz and John from Jalan Jalan, a boat out of Scotland on their third year in the Caribbean. In the evening we all had a bonfire on the beach and John supplied a lovely single malt true whiskey.