An Invitation

We enjoy sharing our lifestyle with our family, friends, and others. So COME ON OUT and "let's get on with it". You only have an opportunity to live once. For those of you who do not choose to get away, feel free to travel vicariously via this blog. P.S.: Note that you can enlarge photos by clicking on them. You can click on the "Spot" link to see where we are (click on "satellite" tab to get a photo of the area) (takes a while to load). You can also use the weather links to find out what we are experiencing. You will find only one post per page --- access earlier posts via the archive. Enjoy.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

A Brief Visit To Seguin Island

Monday, September 19th, 2011

The day was spent sailing to Sequin Island.  It was sunny and the wind was nearly calm.  We ghosted along catching puffs here and there.  However, we did notice a fairly large swell rolling in.  When we arrived at Sequin late in the day we decided to let the rollers subside overnight and then go ashore, to explore the lighthouse, in the morning.  This photo was taken after we arrived at Sequin:


Contrary to our expectations, conditions deteriorated during the night.  It got very rough and no one got much sleep.  Come morning, the swells were nearly breaking across the mouth of the harbor.  Going ashore was not even a consideration.  We made a run for it.  After checking UGRIB we realized that there was a strong low pressure system offshore which NOAA had never mentioned because it was not an officially named storm.

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