Heavy weather

The past couple days have been cloudy and windy; however, checking the weather report at home showed huge downpours, high winds and a few tornadoes. Combine that with Freeport temperatures 10 to 15 degrees higher than home makes us happy to be here.

 The seriousness of the coming weather was heralded by the commercial fishing boats coming into the bay and the lack of pleasure boat traffic leaving the bay. Even the ferry quit running yesterday afternoon. I am glad we were not waiting at ferry dock on the other side of the bay.

After a couple bus rides to the grocery store we were feeling fairly confident about getting around, then a bus we were on took off down a different road. We looked at each other and shrugged since we had already discussed just riding the bus to look around as we have done in several countries. A few blocks later the bus dropped off a woman at an intersection and returned to the regular route. The next deviation from the route caused us to question another passenger on how the system worked. You get on at bus stop, tell the driver your destination and if it is not far off the route and you have spoken politely he will take you there.

 From our patio, palms bowing to the wind.

Looking south down the channel with rough seas breaking on red channel marker.