Today’s excitement came from a boat dragging through the anchorage barely missing several others as it careened through in the 30 knot gusts, anchor dragging along the bottom. After a couple of us made frantic radio calls warning other boats of the danger, the dragging boat finally got under control, got their anchor up and moved to a new spot. Everyone’s a bit more nervous now in the vicious gusts and we have turned on the GPS anchor alarm on Charisma even though it will almost surely wake me up at least once tonight with a false alarm. Oh well, better that than no alarm at all if we drag.

Here's a picture of the anchor watch screen. You can see how many wind changes we've been having.

Other than that not much adventure to report. A more pedestrian day. I fixed the head which decided a couple days ago to stop working (again). You could flush but no new water would come in. We had to pour a bucket of water in the bowl to do the flush. After procrastinating the appropriate amount of time I finally took the bowl off and found that the check valve ball was stuck. I poked it and it came undone. Put the bowl back on and we’re in business again so to speak.

Ann made cookies and we finished the day with a walk down the beach. That’s about it. Tomorrow maybe if the wind lays down a bit, we’ll go to “The Caves”. One of those places where you snorkel through an underwater tunnel and come up into a cave. We’ll see.

Right now I just wish this wind would die down. The gusts are hitting so hard Charisma’s leaning over and I have to brace myself to keep from falling off the seat. And we’re at anchor!