Verwaaid

I don't know a really good English word for 'verwaaid'. It means that it is blowing too hard to leave port. We have seen on the weather forecast for about a week already that it would be blowing today, so we planned to be on Spiekeroog, which is a nice place to be 'verwaaid'.
Last night we still had our dinner outside, in the cockpit of Hans and Jet's boat, the Waterbufvel.





After dinner Lyn and I went for a walk, like we try to do every night. You see all sorts of nice things in the dunes, like this pheasant lady with her chicks:






And then during the night it started blowing, steadily increasing to 30 knots now, around 35 or more in the gusts. For the Dutch readers, that's 7 to 8 Beaufort. At high tide, that's now, the harbour is quite exposed to the Southerly wind. There are white caps on the waves in the harbour, the yachts with masts are under a considerable angle and we are 'rocking and rolling' quite a bit. But it's comfortable on board, Lyn plays the piano and I plan the trip for the next few days and read a bit. We'll go to Wangerooge tomorrow afternoon (the wind is supposed to drop after midday) and to Bremerhaven on Monday, all weather dependent of course. As they say: the skipper with patience always has fair winds!
This picture, taken from Onbekommerd's front deck, does not do justice to the weather conditions, but here it is anyway:

Location:Spiekeroog