And the rain cometh.

Hmm. I had some photos. which are on my camera. which isnt with me. HA.

You can look up at the sky, survey the horizon for 360° and not see a single cloud in the sky. You can look back 5 minutes later and not be able to see even the slightest trace of blue. I was at the beach when those rain clouds just popped out of nowhere… and the downpour began, so I went swimming. And yes, Bora is beautiful even in the rain. Because the lagoon is so shallow the water’s always warm, so all you have to do to escape the rain is dive underwater. You hear this great pattering sound from underwater, and if you look across the sea with the water exactly at eye level there’s this thin layer of mist stretching out to infinity, which instantly disappears if you raise your head. And the pattering continues. And then its gone.

You can follow your rain out to sea… it looks like gray curtains have been drawn over a certain section of the ocean. You can watch it batter cargo ships and move on farther to sea until it disappears. And that was the beauty of the weather here… it changes so quickly that it didn’t matter if it rained, cuz the next moment it would be back to perfect. Until today.

Today the rain started for real. It started soft… then got harder, and harder, and harder… and just when you thought that it couldn’t rain any stronger, that the pounding on your roof, your porch and the banana trees couldn’t get any louder, well, it can, and it does. Usually downpours of this strength are gone within minutes… but not this one. This one went on… I watched from my living room… the ground got saturated, water started building up. I now understand why my house is on stilts.

I came back in the middle of work to get my keys and it was like a lake… I looked from my porch and all the earth was covered by at least a few inches of water, and the rain has finally stopped… for now.