Wifi! and coffee shop! - 2 blogs

Ben and I are at "home" here in Hope Town, Abacos Bahamas. There is ice cream for me and a coffee shop for Ben and we have WIFI! What more could we need.  We have been out for 2 weeks, remotely at islands etc. and now we are in Hope Town.  I like remote and I like towns too.  both have good qualities. They are both fun ... just different fun.
We came from the best island with the best Reef that Ben and I have every snorkeled! it's super structure looked  like beams of architecture jutting up here and there with huge Brain coral of this and that, big coral fans as tall as me. parrot fish everywhere displaying their amazing colors! that was fun!
And now we are having fun in a small town. The small town looks like it is from a house that Disney would have created and it is all painted with colors of easter.
Getting here was a shallow ride! We came in on high tide and it was needed. At one time we were 4 inches from the bottom. We will leave on high tide too!
There is a lot to explore and I will give a report after we have spent a few days here.  Then our ideas are to leave here and go to a northern island to wait for weather.  I'll try to let you know when we make the crossing.  it should be about 3 days? right now we are looking at a low pressure out north west of here.  we will see what it does in the next few days.
Well for knowledge this winter I have hoped to learn weather.  Or start to learn weather and not to be dependent on my iphone and internet.. but nope... i know a little more. It took me a long time to be able to almost read this, here is a sample of what I started to read! normally NOAA in the states says, today will be etc... easy to read but read this for the bahamas:

 .SYNOPSIS...NON-TROPICAL LOW PRES IS CENTERED NEAR 24N64W WITH A
 TROUGH SW TO THE FAR NE CARIBBEAN SEA. THE LOW WILL MOVE SW
 REACHING 23N67W SAT EVENING THEN WEAKEN INTO A TROUGH BY SUN AS
 IT MOVES WWD ACROSS THE SE BAHAMAS. THE TROUGH WILL REACH THE NW
 BAHAMAS MON EVENING AND MOVE ACROSS SOUTH FLORIDA MON NIGHT INTO
 TUE. SE RETURN FLOW WILL INCREASE ACROSS AREA TUE AND WED WITH A
 COLD FRONT APPROACHING SE UNITED STATES COAST LATE WED NIGHT.

this is only the half of it, here is for today and tomorrow:

 TODAY AND TONIGHT
 N OF 27N W OF 74W E TO SE WINDS 10 TO 15
 KT. SEAS 4 TO 7 FT IN E SWELL. S OF 27N W OF 74W NE TO E WINDS
 15 TO 20 KT. SEAS 6 TO 8 FT EXCEPT 3 TO 5 FT W OF BAHAMAS. N OF
 23N E OF 74W N TO NE WINDS 20 TO 25 KT. SEAS 8 TO 13 FT IN NE
 SWELL. S OF 23N E OF 74W NW TO N WINDS 10 TO 15 KT EXCEPT SW TO
 W WINDS E OF 67W. SEAS 6 TO 8 FT IN N SWELL.

 SUN AND SUN NIGHT
 N OF 27N W OF 75W E TO SE WINDS 10 TO 15 KT.
 SEAS 5 TO 7 FT IN E SWELL. N OF 27N E OF 75W NE TO E WINDS 15 TO
 20 KT. SEAS 7 TO 10 FT IN NE SWELL. S OF 27N W OF BAHAMAS NE TO
 E WINDS 15 TO 20 KT. SEAS 3 TO 5 FT. S OF 27N E OF BAHAMAS NE TO
 E WINDS 20 KT SHIFTING TO SE WINDS E OF TROUGH. SEAS 7 TO 12 FT
 IN NE SWELL.
Our longitude and Lat I gave you the last email.  so now take that and tell me how the weather is for the next few days. ha ha ha

We have not figured out our weather fax yet either.  Oh well... if any of you sailors know of a course for mariners about waether - then let me know! I'm all ears ready to learn.

have a great few days,

Pam