Saturday, March 19, 2011

Day of tsunami in Japan 3/11/11



Music/John and Gail

Akupara/Dan and Kate

We were anchored in Las Hadas. My sister Leslie called and told me of the tsunami, and we turned on our radio for more information. Within 15 minutes we pulled up the hook and left the anchorage for deeper water. We just hung out in about 350 feet of water so we didn't feel the effects like we would have if we were close to land. Music met up with us, and we decided to head up the coast to Tenacatita anchorage, which was about 6 hours away. We met up with Akupara along the way, and we all got into Tenacatita about the same time. As we were getting into the anchorage, we were informed that we'd better anchor off in deep water because of the surges in water depth, so we dropped in 32 feet. There were 6 foot rises that lasted about a minute or so, and continued like that for hours, it was a weird day. We feel so sad about all the deaths in Japan from this.

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