Clarks Court (Woburn) Bay, Grenada – running scared from their first tropical storm warning

Now do not laugh too hard. But the humans had their first tropical storm scare. And they were hilarious.

You are going to laugh as hard as I did at them

We were anchored off the capital city of Saint George. It was late in the evening and one of the humans had gone to bed, while the other did a little internet searching, while they had a free connection in the anchorage.

That is when the National Hurricane Centre was checked.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

The humans discovered that their forecast of settled weather was about to be disturbed by a tropical depression that had strengthened to a Tropical Storm!

Tropical storm ‘Chantal’ was on her way from the Atlantic ocean and was predicted to hit as far south as the Windward Islands.

Experts predicted Chantal would move North Westerly and hit the windward islands between Saint Lucia and Martinique in the next 24-48 hours.

The other human was woken up with the news and they both started panicking that they needed to find a more protected anchorage on the south coast.

They sounded like ‘Goldie Locks and Three Bears’

‘This bays too open’

‘That bays will be too crowded to let out lots of chain on the anchor’

‘All the charter boats will be dumped unmanned vessels in that bay’

In the end they decided to head to the eastern shore line of Clarks Court (Woburn) Bay. They would have to move if the storm was up graded, but it would provide some good protection from the wind and would, hopefully, not be too crowded.

The humans were restless through the night worrying about the storm. Would Clarks Court Bay offer good enough protection? Should they head to the mangroves of Port Egmont or Calivigny Harbour instead? Should they sail south to Trinidad?

In the morning they decided to head out straight away and get anchored and settled in some where well ahead of the storm.

Spirit of Argo anchored up in Clarks Court (Woburn) Bay with lots of room to lay down lots and lots of anchor chain. View looking West across the bay.

Spirit of Argo has lots of room to turn in the wind if the storm hits here

Looking north down the bay you can see Clarks Court Marina on the western shore, Whisper Cove Marina on the eastern shore and the town of Woburn on the north-eastern shore

Looking west across the bay you can see Hog Island. Boats are anchored up in the channel leading to the other side of the island and if you look hard you can see the masts of some of the boats anchored on the other side of the island.

Looking South-west you can see the extensive reef system that protects the mouth of the bay

Looking south-east, the private resort on Calivigny Island protects the bay on the east.

Sods law.

Now that the humans had panicked and got themselves all sorted ready for a storm…it never came. In fact they were becalmed and dying for a breath of fresh air where they anchored.

Chantal followed the experts predicted route and passed well north of us.

Silly humans!!!!

They have a whole hurricane season to ride out. What will they be like next time?

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