When the Rains Come!

When it rains it really does rain!

Well, to be fair, it is Cyclone season. Not sure whether it is because the buildings are pretty flimsy and not at all water tight. Or whether the rain and the force of the winds make it sound really that much worse than in the UK. But the combination of large noisy crashing waves, white caps where there shouldn't be, and horizontal rain makes for a very interesting evening for sure. Your mind does play tricks on you at night. Are things really that more intense and loud, or is it just the stillness of trying to get to sleep. Anyway, we had our first proper side of a cyclone.

To me it seemed really bad weather, to the locals it was nothing! Of course I have been saying for ages that we are still really dry here, but after the first of, no doubt, a series of inundations and the worst to come, we now have lots of little green shoots coming up through the sand trying to make the football pitch all green. Of course the goats soon nibble anything they can find, but in this circle of life that will eventually end up on our dinner plate! The fact that the goats also eat the used paper out of the bins in the toilet will not get more of a mention than that! Enough said, I think!

Shutters were all banging and walls leaking, but thankfully only 36 hours of the wet weather before it subsided and we hope with better visibility to start the first diving of this expedition tomorrow. In the aftermath, all the wood has swollen, the doors aren't locking and the decking has all been pulled up. But hey, the sun is shining, there is a slight breeze, and most importantly we have electricity back on again, and fewer electric shocks now things have dried out a little.

A great day to be in Coco Beach.