Antediluvian Days

Yesterday the rain came in epic proportions. Some of the worst flooding that I can recall. It fell for hours and at times in sheets that completely obscured vision. I've been in some pretty impressive downpours, especially when in Guatemala during the rainy season. It knows how to rain in Guatemala, but yesterday's rain was impressive for its density. At Tikal you'll get these downpours where the raindrops are the size of tennis balls, but there is an inch or so between the drops, but yesterday the raindrops fell so close together that they rubbed on the way down. It was quite an impressive sight and in this built up environment it had its destructive moments. I haven't been down to the beach yet, but usually downpours such as these have an impact on the bluffs and I even suspect some significant damage to the beachworks. But before the deluge I was working on a companion square to the solstice flower. Right next to it, I squared off a bit and went back to some stick work as there was an abundance of little fits of flotsam wafted ashore as of late. It took an hour or two and if it survives I have plans for a third square and who knows...

I also put a couple of courses of stone on the second wave crest of the Stonewave. This second curve will be a little higher than the first...that is if yesterday's storm didn't undermine things.

We'll pay a visit this afternoon to see how things are.

While biking around the peninsula I came upon a female snapper in the process of excavating a nest. A little late for that I thought and she chose a particualrly bad spot, so I think eventually she will have to move on, but in the mean time she allowed me a photograph or two. Pretty hot, as snappers go.