Key West, Florida, USA
24°33'33"N, 81°47'03"W
The last days in Key West we spent a fair amount of time watching the weather for the upcoming trip, but were not immune from it while still anchored off Key West Bight.
We had some pretty crazy weather - a far cry from the normal hot and sticky summer weather of Florida. One minute everything is sunny and then the wind shifts and you look out and there's a big, nasty black cloud spreads across the sky. It becomes like watching an accident - you can't stop staring as it bubbles and grows, practically tumbling over itself as the wind pushes it across the horizon and blotting out the sun.
We usually get some time to prepare.... as you can see by my storm gear!!
Bizarrely, this storm didn't even drop a single on us!!
But the first of this wave of storms gave us a lashing - the mad winds that came first had us bouncing all over the place, and at the time we still had our solar panel tied down with string to the bimminey (canopy shade) and, unfortunately, my fears started to be realized as the panel first slid to one side and then the other... just as I shouted to Tadd the wind caught the front edge of the pane and tried to make it fly. We spent the next half hour getting soaked by the rain as we clung to our coveted solar panel.
Needless to say we made it a priority to get the panel up and screwed down on our davits off the back to the boat!
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