Day 109: Rainy Day

Big Majors, Exumas, Bahamas (anchored)

May 4, 2022

We haven’t had many rainy days in the Bahamas. We might get a quick shower or two. Sometimes we see rain on the horizon without it getting to where we are.

Today was different: lots of low grey clouds and thunder. Distance can be really difficult to determine when we’re looking over open water, but these clouds were pretty much over top of us for hours.

As it got darker, the water seemed to get calmer. We did notice that Lailia’s orientation changed a lot. We normally face fairly east but throughout the day we actually clocked around. One thing I check is that we are facing the same direction as others around us.

When the rain came we were lucky – it wasn’t accompanied by any strong winds. There have been reports of strong squalls with high winds on some other island chains.

It’s been a nice, lazy day. Neither of us has had shoes on today. Once the rain passed, we spent time giving stink-eye to folks who are speeding through the anchorage leaving wakes behind. We’ve considered shaking our boat hook at them and telling them to get out of our yard! (We’re old like that.)

John also made a conch horn today. It’s a tradition to blow the conch horn when the sun sets.