Wednesday, August 22, 2007

On the outskirts of a hurricane


Hurricane Dean is the 9th most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Carribean by the US Dept of Meterology. Luckily we weren´t too near the path of the hurricane itself. You can see my position marked by the red dot above. We are right in the path of the swirling arms that define the strong winds around the hurricane itself.

We experienced a fair amount of rainfall and some pretty scary blustery winds. We've had to extend our scuba diving course by an extra day, and when we did get in the water visibility was poor because of the silt churned up by the weather.

The night of the hurricane was pretty cool. Me Chris and Tanya went out bar hopping and we managed to get free shots at one bar because the bar was having a hurricane promotion.

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