Okay, two weeks in one place, a nice place, but just one single place, nevertheless. We stayed partly because we really do like the folks in New Bight and partly because of the weather. Strong winds make for waves, ever growing waves. We’ve mentioned “a blow” and 20 knots plus winds. Thought you might like to see what we are talking about. With us anchored about a quarter of a mile away from the shore, look what 20 knot plus winds can whip up, sorry didn’t get the 30 plus we felt.
We were anchored in a wonderful bight (Webster defines as a curved coastline or open bay), yep, it’s that. Wonderful wind protection from the east because of the big hill with the Hermitage on top, just not much from other directions.
So, what’s coming? Here is one of our weather sources, and look at this coming weekend. The arrows show the predicted wind direction. The number on top is constant wind, and right below the arrow, strength of gusts. We have a real doozy coming up, with the high winds clocking around from south to north!
We have decided to travel back up Cat Island and go around the bottom of Eleuthera to tuck back into good ol’ Rock Sound. This will take two moves: today up Cat to Bennetts Harbour and then tomorrow, the long leg around to Rock Sound.
We’re now laying outside Bennetts Harbour (which was too small and too crowded), and lo and behold, we just saw our first “green flash” at sunset! We’ll keep trying for a really good picture. Oh, the chore….
No roosters!
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