October generally sees the end of the rainy season but this year nobody told the Central American weather gods.

There’s always a sense of anticipation when the ‘fish out of water” that lies immovable on the hard attracting bills like a bear to honey becomes a beautiful, graceful boat again.

The nights were drawing in back home in Anglesey and the heating was back on, a sure sign that it was time to learn from the geese and fly south - or in our case Southwest to Guatemala.

We knew it was bad when the boat slammed hard off a huge wave and the glass flew out of the barometer.

Yesterday we crossed our wake and dropped anchor in Key West after a four year circumnavigation of the eastern and western Caribbean. Along the way we have: