Two days of rather frustrating ‘nearly-wind’ but not…… Many of the tourists here do the right thing and bring their 10/11/12 metre kites (or even larger) but Jim and I have 7′s and 9′s and the last couple of days it just wasn’t quite enough to ride.

Mid-August/September is storm season; the storms form off the coast of Cape Verde and slowly cross the Atlantic towards us in the Dominican Republic. Each one normally ends up passing north or swerving south of the Island. North is good; then we get the benefit of the swell (waves) coming off the edge of the storm – south is not so good as we on the North Coast rarely receive the swell. Luckily, north is more common and we are watching the next one forming in the mid-Atlantic now. The bad news is that the storms block the normally strong trade winds we use to kite. Still, there’s always Spinning to get a bit of a workout and we’ll both be on a bike tonight at 6.30pm

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