Rain. Sweet blessed rain. But be careful what you wish for. It looks like we are actually having a rainy season. We're in one of those every afternoon and/or evening it rains cycles.
And that's good. And bad. It's really good for the pastures where the horses are but the grass in the yard is growing faster than I can cut it. The paddocks are muddy and slippery. Fortunately they are sandy and dry pretty quickly. Once it stops raining.
It has been raining every day up in the mountains. That's good. And bad. The water level in Lago Guajataca - the lake that is our primary reservoir - is rising, enough that the water authority announced yesterday they are ending the 24-hours-on-24-hours-off water rationing starting this Wednesday. The bad news is all the water flowing down the rivers carries all kind of crap to the ocean. Visibility is bad and bacteria levels spike.
So far the rains have been fairly short and not too hard. There has been no flooding. Let's hope it stays that way.
Speaking of oceans and visibility, I dove at an beach/reef called Rompeolas with our friends Heidi and her husband Hernan.
Visibility at Rompeolas is never really good; after all the rain, we were prepared for really crappy viz. Rompeolas surprised us with 30-foot-plus visibility. That's about a good as it ever gets. Just shows ya, ya never know 'til ya get there.
I love diving with Heidi and Hernan. I think I've said this before but I'll repeat it: Heidi is a microbiologist and what we call a "four square foot" diver. She can spend a whole dive minutely inspecting four square feet of ocean. It pays to hang around her: she sees the coolest stuff, stuff I would never see otherwise, like these shrimp and the starfish.
I am supposed to go snorkeling with Carole at Rompeolas this morning. We'll see how it is after all the rain we had yesterday.
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