Settled In For The Blow

Meeks Patch    

After a busy few days in Spanish Wells, it was nice to have a slow day courtesy of the latest wind event. All 30 boats in the anchorage settled in and I did not see a single dinghy launched all day. The Bo Hengy III maintained its schedule and there were a few excursion boats zipping in to view the pigs. For most of the day the star attractions stayed up on the beach. Only in the late afternoon did they venture down to the water. In the morning I consolidated our remaining provisions from the commissary to the storage area under the settee. The wind picked up in the early afternoon with gusts exceeding 30 knots. After it waned a bit, I read on the upper deck in the lee of the pilot house until I finished my latest book. As the sun fell, so did the temperature. We closed most of our open ports and windows to combat the chill. The sunset was dramatic up to the point where the heavy cloud cover put an early end to the show.