Dominican Republic - still bashing east
The trip from Turks and Caicos started out well but during the night we had another terrible thunder storm just off the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The cells showed up clear as day on the radar but did not travel in the same direction of the wind. I felt like they were circling us. It's more like asteroids than Galaxians. I hate lightning at sea. If you get hit, the best that will happen is a £20,000 bill for new electronics and the worst is the boat exploding and we all die. Just another thing to worry about when on watch in the middle of the night. We arrived in Samana, Dominican Republic to a lovely uncrowded, safe anchorage with a bridge to nowhere from the 70s. Samana bay is famous for it's breeding ground for hump backed whales but we arrived at the wrong time of year :-( We bumped into our British friends Dave and Anna on Tamerisk. We first met them in Turks and Caicos and they were the first British sailors we'd seen in 6 months. Britannia no longer rules...