• By Joanie Howard <joanie.howard1 at gmail.com>
• Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 16:51:26 +0100

• By Joanie Howard <joanie.howard1 at gmail.com>
• Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 23:33:00 +0000

• By Joanie Howard <joanie.howard1 at gmail.com>
• Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 20:07:19 +0000

• By joanie.howard1 at gmail.com
• Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 17:23:01 -0400

Good evening,
We have had 4.99 inches of rain here on the Searocks this month, which is a 
lot. The island is very green, the mosi’s are busy, plants are happy. The ocean 
is calm and we heard the whales are singing the day before yesterday while 
diving.
Have a great evening,
JH
Searocks 

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• By joanie.howard1 at gmail.com
• Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 17:39:13 -0400

Good evening Everyone,
With the various highs and lows circling around us this is how Anguilla has 
looked for the last few evenings.
Diving today was mostly current and Cudas, one actually slapped Dougie with his 
tail! They followed us the whole dive.
Hope our sunshine returns soon, visitors need it, fishermen need it, charter 
boats need it, but I am worried another ground sea is coming in on Sunday.
Have a great evening wherever you are,
JH
Searocks 

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• By joanie.howard1 at gmail.com
• Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 18:59:47 -0400

The pic doesn’t do it justice , but I haven’t seen the ocean so angry for a 
long while. Temp is 77f inside, colder and high winds on the porch.? All over 
the world weather is being extraordinary, and no exemption here in Anguilla.  
We all need to pay serious attention to climate change.
My best to all this evening.
JH
Searocks 

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• By joanie.howard1 at gmail.com
• Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 20:18:22 -0400

Good evening All,
I think it is full moon tonight but I could be wrong, and it might be tomorrow 
night.
We have had very strong winds all day, gusts up to 40 and 50 mph every few 
minutes, fishing boats are all in everyone’s gardens. Whitecaps in abundance.
I had some sad news tonight, a very old friend of mine (we both worked for 
PanAm in St Thomas in the 60’s). She now lives in Florida, but I knew she had 
connections in Marsh Harbour in The Bahamas , I emailed her when hurricane 
Dorian was imminent and she said they were in the states and all was  O K. I 
called her tonight to wish her a belated happy Christmas and New Years, she 
told me her sister had died during Dorian at Marsh Harbour, Bahamas. I felt 
awful that I hadn’t known. 
This just underlined how much we must prepare for extreme weather. And how 
important it is to communicate with each other.
A good night to all,
JH
Searocks 

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• By Joanie Howard <joanie.howard1 at gmail.com>
• Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2020 15:35:35 +0000

• By Joanie Howard <joanie.howard1 at gmail.com>
• Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 20:36:10 +0000

Good Afternoon to all followers and contributors to Stormcarib,
This is a short Christmas message from Anguilla. 
Today it is gorgeous, temperature about 80F on my porch with a middling 
easterly breeze to keep everything cool. We have had 2.81 inches of rain so far 
this month, the cistern is almost full (i have had family and friends staying, 
so have used quite a lot of water) so it is looking good at the moment.  The 
diving has been great, though the visibility not so good as we have had quite 
big ground seas running, a lot of old ‘club special D diving’ friends arriving 
back, such a treat to catch up. Small Brown dog and I have been on the hunt, 
have managed to demolish one  bush rat in the garage, a yellow (invasive) frog 
on the steps and a centipede in the downstairs apartment.  However, the 
Yellowbirds of Hightop, the Poincettia stick insect, the Small Brown Dog and I 
wish everyone a Happy and Peaceful Christmas and a merry and prosperous New 
Year. I also attach a pic of my minuscule Christmas Tree, decorated with small 
bleached sea urchin Snowmen made by my friend Shirley Morgan and collected from 
Junk’s Hole.
My very best wishes to you all,
JH
Searocks 

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• By Joanie Howard <joanie.howard1 at gmail.com>
• Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2019 23:56:06 +0000

Smallest Gecko ever, about the size of my thumbnail.

Copyright Cyril Bernard. My Little Hightop Villa bottom left, this and the next 
pic taken by my son-in-law who is a licensed Drone pilot.

Copyright Cyril Bernard. Having seen pics of Saba and Statia I thought one of 
St Martin would be appropriate, my house is bottom left.
We had a HUGE ground sea yesterday, waves breaking right over the top of Little 
Scrub Island, due, I think, to the large low in the middle of the Atlantic to 
the north of us. Slightly quieter today but the ocean still looks like green 
milk. No diving for a day or two.
My very best to Gert, Dave and all concerned with Stormcarib one way or 
another. We seem to have got through the hurricane season, with the exception 
of Dreadful Dorian, by the skin of our teeth, my thoughts and wishes to all in 
the Bahamas and hope it helps a tiny bit to know that, there by the grace of 
God go any of us, and that we are all wishing you the best recovery in whatever 
form it takes.
A very good night to everyone,
JH
Searocks 

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• By Joanie Howard <joanie.howard1 at gmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 22:37:56 +0000

Good Evening,
Yesterday afternoon our wind changed around to northwest and then west, unusual 
here, then this afternoon we got .26 of an inch of rain again coming from the 
west. Quite stormy and grey at the moment, current temp is 82f and it is humid 
and sticky, and there is a fairly big ground sea coming from the north.
Hope Dave is right and Sebastian goes north and northeast, (pay attention 
Bermuda).
My best to all, stay informed and ready. Don’t hear that hum yet from the fat 
lady that I was hoping for.
JH
Hightop

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• By Joanie Howard <joanie.howard1 at gmail.com>
• Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 19:20:36 +0000

I arrived back to Anguilla on Wednesday evening after a long two days 
travelling with Air France (who looked after me well and was on time) and the 
small brown dog (mark 11). The temperature is 86f, the cistern is full and we 
have had .18 of an inch of rain since I got back. It is wonderful to be warm it 
was 2 degrees above freezing with sleet and what we call a thin wind when we 
left The Little Bay Barn on Tuesday morning.  I do hope the fat lady is at 
least humming.
My best to everyone,
JH
Hightop

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• By Joanie Howard <joanie.howard1 at gmail.com>
• Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2019 13:46:38 +0000

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• Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 09:35:23 -0400

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• Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 20:07:36 -0400

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• Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 12:44:40 -0400

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• Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 10:27:23 -0400

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• Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:25:01 -0700

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• Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 09:38:07 -0400

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• Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 12:11:44 +0100

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• Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2019 20:06:24 +0100

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• Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2019 11:46:29 -0400

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• Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2019 21:23:23 +0100

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• Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 09:35:04 -0400

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• Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 08:53:46 -0400

• By Joanie Howard <joanie.howard1 at gmail.com>
• Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 22:50:47 +0100

Good Evening to all,
My kindly Canadian neighbour took this pic yesterday, it appears some of my 
trees have survived the drought, thank goodness. He also checked my rain gauge, 
and the Searocks have had 4 1/2 inches of rain since my last post. Carnival has 
been jumping up mightily over the last week or so, and Real Deal won the big 
boat race, so celebration at Sandy Ground. I do hope the storm gods stay 
sleeping, but, if they wake up are we all ready? If not please prepare.
My best to all,
JH
Little Bay Barn 

 

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• By Joanie Howard <joanie.howard1 at gmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 19:55:00 +0100

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• Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 11:25:30 +0100

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• Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2019 19:46:29 +0100

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• Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 23:03:13 +0100

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• Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 15:58:07 +0100