We are still in Hope Town sitting out weather. The fronts keep coming every two to three days. The advantage of being here instead of Marsh Harbour is that if it is blowing in the 20's we can still get off the boat or move around the harbor in our dinghy. The disadvantage is that we have to rent a mooring ball instead of anchoring. Today we had a calm morning so we took the dinghy on an extended excursion down the length of the island, We got to a narrow part of the island where we could beach the boat and cross over to the ocean side. WOW! Six to eight foot breaking seas and when they hit the rocky shore they threw water a good fifteen to twnty feet in the air. It was something to watch. Of course when got back to the dinghy the wind had shifted and we did not have nice calm water to run in. It got downright bumpy.
We have decided to stay here another week, we get a discount on the mooring if we rent it a week at a time. There is still a lot of the area we want to see but for now we need to wait out the weather. The locals and the vruisers that have been here many times say they have never seen weather like this.
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