To all of you who are going to be affected by this tremendous winter storm. Stay warm and safe we will be thinking of you. I can't say we are missing the weather but we do have concerns for those who have to make their way out in such challenging conditions. We know a thing or two about those.
The wind quieted during the night which allowed for a decent night's sleep. We were up early to get to shore before they picked up again. I had a good size bag of laundry to catch up on and wanted to get to the laundry room before the masses arrived. You can imagine with 300 plus boats here the laundry room is busy. There are 8 washers and dryers and the room gets backed up quickly. With the wind building getting the clean laundry back dry could be an issue it can be a very wet ride in the dingy on a windy day. I brought the Ipad and phone with me so I could use the Marina's wi-fi while I waited. The wi-fi connection doesn't reach out into the harbor. We brought India in for morning shore leave, she had been sick during the night. We're not sure why seems like every 4 weeks or so she has a bad night. It doesn't seem to bother her nearly as much as us. The ride over wasn't bad it takes about 15 minutes to get from where we are anchored to the marina dingy dock. We pulled in off loaded India, the wash and ourselves. It was buys already even at the early hour. I was lucky in that there were three open machines just what I needed. With the clothes washing I settled in with the tablet at one of the tables with a plug (also very popular and somewhat hard to come by) and settled in to watch last two episodes of this season's Downton Abbey. I miss the television, the captain not so much he is content to read.. I was having a ball with the goings on both upstairs and down, striking up a conversation with the gentleman seated across from me who was also a Downton fan. Scott had returned to the boat with India. Once I had finished the laundry I texted him to come collect the laundry and me. Seems the wind had already picked up considerably and in the confused seas while saving his cell phone he lost his key card for the facilities overboard. We stopped at the front desk to get him a new one and also gave them the numbers for our dingy which we had not had when we first checked in. Scott warned me it was going to be a wet choppy ride and he was right. The winds had been building as promised and were now up to about 20 knots. I had brought dry bags to put the laundry in which worked really well. We got it back if not ourselves totally dry. The remainder of the day will be spent on the boat, Scott was to go to Boynton with Deb and George who were headed north after their brief stay on Long Key but he was afraid to leave Light Reach. If she should drag anchor it would take two of us to get it reset without bumping in to anyone or anything. Right now the winds are still building and we are swinging quite a bit. The day is not cold but not warm with the wind coming out of the N/NW. Right now we are boat bound until they settle down sometime tomorrow afternoon if predictions hold. Todays picture was taken on Kent Island last summer on a bike ride. Not all the beautiful beaches are in the Islands.