Day One--Key West to Bahia Honda

After being able to wake up at a leisurely hour (for once) and take one last shower in my marvelous open air shower (sob), we headed out.

And the wind was right on our nose, good times.

So we don't have far to go, so not too worried.

And then this:

Thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening....

Great, we are going to get zorked for sure.  I, being the stinker I am, tell my husband to look for water spouts.  Which made his head pop off....and then run down below to get every gadget uploaded with radar.

However, I've noticed a very strange thing about Keys storms, they will start roaring from the gulf side, hit the islands with a good hefty wallop and then once over the ocean side, they just peter out and dissipate.

And that's what happened again.

So that nasty mess you see above, literally just evaporated once going over the island chain. We got a few rain drops, not even enough to give us a good fresh water rinse.

Mind you, that doesn't ALWAYS happen, but it did this time. And if it's associated with the 'H' word coming out of the east. Fugeddaboutit.

So luckily, we got a fabulous light show and no winds/rain.

But the fun was just about to begin......