Thursday 4/17/14
In the morning I took a walk in to town, found a cool little
café and ordered huevos rancheros, which I find is almost always, served a bit
differently everywhere.
Back at the marina I spotted the managers peering into the
bushes. Seems they discovered an unusual collection of cute grasshoppers.
The weather had been forecast for a 20% chance of rain but
the marina manager told me of much worse so I got on my laptop and was
disheartened to read; “gusts as high as 35 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible”, and
for Friday “same high winds, chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation
amounts between 2 and 3 inches possible”. And not that I was planning to do any
coastal sailing, but the marine forecast was worse; “gale watch in effect, seas
building to ten feet, dominate period five seconds”! It’s sobering to know that
any sea height more than equal to wave period is considered to be dangerous,
twice that is hard to imagine!
After a short evaluation I decide that hi-def TV and a dry
couch didn’t sound so bad, so up on the trailer and back to Steve’s. Another
home cooked dinner from Pam and I was “part of the family” again : -).
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