It's been a week of a whole lot and not much.
Anna, Penny, and Vivian "officially" left the island this week. Jeremy will be here for another week or so then he's gone too. Lots of people have come and gone from our lives here in the past 13 years but this is family - our family, as Carole put it "the family I choose" - and this is especially hard.
Did anyone wish for rain? We have gone from drought to rain every day. I mean Every. Day. Thunderstorms, lightning, rain for a couple of hours Every. Day. But this is exactly what it's supposed to do this time of year. Fortunately, we - and Ola Lola's have not flooded. Downtown Aguadilla did as did the road between Aguadilla and Aguada. Rio Culebrinas, which drains a huge chunk of the northwest corner of the island and dumps into Aguadilla Bay, is over its banks in several places. If the rain stops now, it will be a week before the water clears up enough to dive.
The good news in all this is it has been raining a couple of hours every day in the mountains. This is exactly what we need to refill Lago Guajataca. The lake levels are high enough that the water authority lifted the rationing and restrictions last week. Not only do we have water, we have water pressure!
Carole and I did go back and snorkel at Rompeolas before the rain totally crapped it up. It's funny: when Heidi, Hernan and I dove there the week before, the reef seemed to have a lot of life. Snorkeling, looking down, it seemed pretty barren (except for the reef squid). One good sign though: in the midst of a stand of really old really dead elkhorn coral, we found several patches of new elkhorn growth. That is awesome! Maybe after years of decline the elkhorn is finding a way to come back.
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