This video does a better job of showing the storm. If you can’t see it in the video, it is hailing!
04
Mar
2018
Month: March 2018
03
Mar
2018
Thunderstorms are back!
We are hoping the weather improves soon, but it does look like the sun is another week out. In reality, we have it pretty good. It was high overcast this morning and we had a pleasant run. The Saturday market this morning was great. Next week we will have to arrive earlier as a good share of the vendors had already packed up. Most things had great prices, for example fresh pears are €0.10 each.
Leslie getting some great produce:
02
Mar
2018
Babies are Awesome
01
Mar
2018
Wind and Waves
Today the surf report was 6.6m (that's 22ft for those back home) at 13 seconds with the wind blowing at 54kph gusting to 75kph. We walked out to the point south of town to witness the event. The waves were impressive!
I managed to make it out surfing for the first time as well. (Sorry, no pictures). The beach (Meia Praia) is sheltered from the full swell, but it was still one of the biggest days I have been out in. A solid double overhead. I made it outside (even being out of surfing shape!), but didn't catch any waves. Too chicken to sit deep enough. It was refreshing to get in the water though!
The plants on our deck had a bit of a rough time of it too:
