Tropical Storm Erika- means we make our way to South Sound one more time on Virgin Gorda

Well when things look like this 36 hours out...

You decide to load your eggs back in the basket, take your lines out of the storage locker again and make your way to a hurricane hole. We went back and forth about it, but Bazza final reasoning was, if he went to the hurricane hole and it was "just" a tropical storm he might not have to cut the awning down where as somewhere else he probably would have had to!
His logic works for me... I think probably one of the best lines I heard about Erika this morning was from Chris Parker quoted here:
"--The more I analyze Erika, the more I realize we really don't have a good handle on where she is...and if we don't know where she is...and if all of the forecast guidance has been wrong about Erika's behavior over the past 6-12hrs...then we can't be sure what she'll do going forward."

Makes sense, Annie from Cuan Law had called me yesterday afternoon wanting to know what we were doing, thinking it would help them decide which way to jump, thought it was quite funny that we were both sitting on the same fence at the time HOPING we could just go to Great Harbour... So I guess everyone is having a hard time calling this one.

I am not sure why they are smiling about this fun operation! (Notice Simeon did get a haircut?)

Apparently the messy ROV IS coming as well, although he did clean up all his little bits of wire that are scattered everywhere...

We tied on Simeons foldy boat, threw on the lines...

Took Whiskey Dream in tow...

and we are on our way!

Now the reason I did grocery shopping yesterday afternoon becomes very clear hey? I will keep you updated, after all, I certainly don't have much to do in the mangroves besides blog updates and computer stuff!