My first week back on Andiamo has been a relative success. The cats are still alive and staying with the boat (although Lucy has been dealing with some serious abandonment issues, which she’s taking out on me right now big time), the AC works again (THANK GOD!), Diesel’s back in business (I turned off the fuel line before I left, but totally forgot), and the boat is less of a mess than when I got here. Oh, and I got an outboard (don’t ask me what happened to my last one, please, I’m beggin’).
And, not entirely unexpected despite my exodus from the Caribbean this past summer/hurricane season, I still end up getting potentially introduced to a pretty ugly storm named Wilma, which just became a category 1 hurricane. She’s hovering right now off the coast of Honduras and Nicaragua. The Bay Islands are sure to feel at lease some of her wrath unless she takes a serious tack to the north and soon. So I’m a bit concerned about my friends in Utila.
Being that we’re up the Rio, things are pretty safe, we don’t have to deal with stuff like storm surges and big breaking waves. All we really have to deal with from a passing storm is heavy winds (which are heavily subdued by the surrounding mountains that buffer us from the coast) and lots of rain. Which can, as evidenced by Hurricane Stan about a week and a half ago, cause major havoc even far inland. So that was a bit sobering for everybody around here, hoping that the surrounding villages around Lago Izabal and the river don’t get hit with that kind of havoc if Wilma does come by too close.
One thing that this storm does tell me is that I’m going to just have to hang out in the Rio Dulce until the hurricane season is certainly done and overwith. I’ll only leave before the end of November if the weather conditions that nurture hurricanes have for the most part subsided. Otherwise, I stay right here.
Comment from: mietsie [Visitor]
So, what did happen with your previous outboard? 😉
mietsie
Comment from: MIchael Greaney [Visitor]
Yeah, Tony! What happened to the outboard? Is that the one that tried to kill you last Summer?
Comment from: Raf Truyers [Visitor]
Website looks great!
Hope to be part of this adventure soon again…
btw, I know what happens to Tony’s outboards! 🙂
cheers
Raf