No letup in sight! Last night at least 4 squalls came through, with the typical high winds and heavy rain. One consolation is that our water tanks are full. Normally I would run the watermaker every couple of days to keep the water tanks full, but there is a fine sediment in the water in Thompson Bay that will clog the filters, so we have been running low until the rains started. Even if it had not rained, it wouldn't be a major problem, as Long Island is one of the very few places in the Bahamas where water at the dock is free. On most cays, water is made by reverse osmosis plants, just a big version of the system we have on board. But Long Island is big enough to have its own natural water supply, so it's not a scarce commodity like elsewhere. Some boats even come here from Georgetown just to fill up. For 150 gallons at prices ranging from $0.60 to $1.30 per gallon, you can run up a good bill in a hurry! But in any case we are fine. I fashioned a water collection system that directs the rainwater into our aft tanks (we have 3 tanks, one forward and to aft). And they quickly filled with the heavy rain in the frequent squalls. Today (Sunday), in between squalls, we headed to shore for a walk. Once ashore, we decided to head across the island to the beach on the east (windward) side. There we saw a good reminder of why we were staying put. On Thompson Bay, we are extremely well protected, and it is easy to think that perhaps we could leave. After all, we have often cruised on 20 knots at home, and its not much more than that here. But those were in protected waters. The windward side of Long Island is directly exposed to the Atlantic Ocean, and the size of the breakers crashing ashore made it easy for us to see why we weren't out there. As far as we could see, the sea was white with foaming breakers, and the 12' seas crashing across the reefs and pounding the beach threw salt spray 40' in the air at times. It was what is locally called "a Rage" on the ocean. As we scuttled back across to the lee shore of Thompson Bay, we were more than content to stay put. One positive about being stuck here is the food. There's lots of time for planning and preparation. Take today for example; for breakfast we had fresh fruit, mostly local, with granola that Jeannie made yesterday and yogurt. That was followed by toast made from bread we bought at the Clarence Town Bakery, which is excellent, and accompanied by Marie Sharp's Guava jam. Marie Sharp manufactures all sorts of jams and jellys plus excellent hot sauce, in Belize. When I was down there last week, I brought some of both back. I have never seen it outside Belize, but it would be a great seller, as it is delicious! Lunch was a vegetable and cheese omelet with fresh garden salad, and cookies (yes, from the bakery) and tea for dessert. Tonight we will finish the Butter Chicken from two nights ago with some fresh local vegetables. Dessert is TBA. So in spite of getting a little antsi, we are still having a good time.