False Start!
“A serious swell has come in during the night, I think it’ll be too big for where we were yesterday” says Alexis after a few minutes study of the coral reef just below our bungalow. We decide to go and try some of the spots on the south coast, taking the road to the port of General Luna. A thirty minute boat ride later under a cheery sky, our enthusiasm drops when we arrive in front of a spot full of heavy swell and waves slashing in every direction over the reef. Seeing and sensing our disappointment, our boatman suggests that we go a little further south to some of the other islands. There we come across an incredible sand bank, whiter than white, in the middle of a lagoon. We paddle away to go and check it out, returning under a menacing sky that we notice is blowing in a huge storm form the north. The weather is obviously still up to its tricks, and as we head off at top speed back to port a biblical deluge is doing its best to sink the boat. The rain is blown nearly horizontal, the thunder is as loud as cannon fire and the sky is as dark as night. Despite the 15 minutes of highly extreme weather we battled through, all three of us had a kind of mad grin on our faces as we reached port and realised how insane the conditions were. It seemed like the weather was determined to trip us up, but it was going to have to try much harder than that, we were already dreaming up our plan B.
