The Day after our First Big Storm

Dan: What an amazing transformation this place is after the storm! Today was the first sunny day after one full week of storms that featured strong winds and heavy rains. It’s like the day after a huge snowstorm in Santa Fe. The air is clear and calm. The ocean is still and gentle. It truly looks, as well as feels, like two totally different places. It is as if a beautiful, sensual woman changed to an aggressive, protective mother, then back again.

During the storm the ocean was big and violent. It showed it’s strength and power with crashing white cap waves. The sea was swollen with rage and it brought ashore anything that was in it’s path.

The sea has now returned to it’s gentle, docile ways. The only way that we had known it before the storm. There is hardly a wave big enough to break over the outer-reef. Ones that do seem to break with caution and reserve. This tranquility of the sea can be overwhelming and it is the tone that usually sets the mood for this tropical island.