Spay we can, in Roatan!: Stormy Weather

Remember: This is a photo Sandy took the day we arrived. This is the view from the porch of our bungalow.

Wednesday, November 26, 2014.

This am the weather started to get a little dicey. I worked on trying to catch up on logging our dives, and getting some journaling done. It started blowing and raining a little bit. But the morning dive was still on!

Here is the view this morning!!

Waves are crashing against the "iron shore" of old coral beds.

This is not our actual dive spot... picture from the internet. It was kind of rough and raining when we went in.

Because of the wind on this side of the island, we drove to the other side of the island and did and shore entry to Church Wall. It was pretty difficult to walk/navigate through the surf, but we made it and down we went along the reef with Amber as our dive master.

We swam through a fissure in the wall. It was a little scary, but pretty neat!

Did not see as much interesting aquatic life, but a few neat things. We went down to 79 feet but only stayed down for 47 minutes. We went through our air pretty quickly. Well, Sandy and I did, Linda seems to use no air underwater!! She must be part fish!

We returned to clean up and go to town for lunch. The weather was getting a bit worse. Sandy and I took tons of pictures of the big waves hitting the little shelter by the sea.

Watching the storm is a blast!
But the poor little crabs are probably having a rough time!

We finally went to lunch with Linda at the Earth Mama Restaurant. It was one of Harmony’s favorites and she kept telling us to go there. It was excellent! Sandy and I had Lime Shrimp tostadas that were really tasty.

Lots of debris gets washed up on the beach during a storm.

Stacy and Linda at Earth Mama's for lunch.

Sandy and I had the lime shrimp tostadas! Delicioso!!

The proprietor said the storm was supposed to hit between 3-4pm… and it did! Oh my! The rain started coming down in buckets and the wind was blowing! We were soaked within minutes of leaving the restaurant. Linda and I got separated from Sandy while we were doing some last minute shopping. We finally took a taxi back to the Seagrape. Sandy ended up getting stuck… in a bar! Bummer! So she had a beer and finally made her way back to the bungalow.

Other critters hung out in the bar to avoid the storm (and hoping for a treat or two!)

It was POURING and BLOWING!! We were drenched just in the sprint to our bungalow! Wanted to get even better photos of the wave crashing on the beach, but it was raining and blowing so hard, my camera was going to get soaked. You will just have to believe us that it is an impressive storm!

Sandy may not be able to leave tomorrow, there are certainly no planes going out right now! The forecast expects this storm to last for two days. No more diving. Darn! The power went out about 6:30. We were hoping to go to town for more live music, but with it storming this badly, there may not be any music. (All the restaurants are open to the outside, no actual windows!). The power came back on, but it is still raining and blowing. Turns out the power did not come back on. This facility has a large generator. Sandy keeps going out in the storm to see it up close and personal. All the surrounding area is in the dark, we are the only ones that she can see with power.

Well, enough writing for now! Hopefully I will get to post tomorrow.

Buenos noches!