Rainy, rainy day... power outages... blog pics updated
15 July 2012 | Hope Town, Abacos
Heather / rainy and 84 F / 0-15 kts S
[UPDATE Sun 15 July: added a whole lot of pictures and a bit of text to "Little Harbour after 17 years" entry.]
Last night the power went out a helf hour after midnight. The whole town went dark, except for two places that had generators, and the lighthouse, which is a wind-up mechanism (more on that later) with a kerosene light. The A/C went off. When you have to have the hatches closed and it's rainy and hot, it can get uncomfortable. We opened the hatches as soon as we could and just slept a bit, ready to spring into action and close them if the rain started again. Fortunately, about 4:40 am the power went back on.
Then it went off around 9:45. Then back on. Off. On.
It started pouring. We began to reconsider the advisability of going to Great Guana today (pouring rain, more forecast tonight and tomorrow), as our dive trip would be pretty dismal with such gray overcast lighting.
So I started updating the images on the blog (and grading). Responsive to your comments, people! :-)