Month: September 2017

Another post needing a re-write with a heavy heart. I had started this section about one of our favourite islands when Maria was a little tropical storm and barely named. Wow did she get big and angry fast intensifying from tropical storm into cat 5 Hurricane within 48 hours! Dominica is one of the poorest … Continue reading Abundant Dominica

In the aftermath of Hurricane Irma we are pretty thankful our hurricane season plan has us in Grenada and well away from the devastation up north. Two more disturbances have just spun off the coast of Africa and while they are low probability at the moment, as usual we will be keeping an eye on … Continue reading French Quickie

Writing this in Grenada as the category 5 hurricane Irma thunders over the northern Caribbean islands is humbling. Our thoughts are with our friends in her path and all the people affected. It’s sobering when the media is hyping Irma as a category 6 when the scale only goes to catastrophic at category 5. The … Continue reading Hurricane thoughts