The mountains to our west, the Sierra Gigante were slowly covered by clouds as north wind started to blow during the morning. It slowly increased in intensity getting quite strong overnight. We swung from side to side as the 30 MPH gusts hits us from one side or the other. The highest gust was 40 MPH but overall the wind was steadily blowing in the low to mid 20’s. Puerto Escondido is a pretty anchorage so we were quite happy to just sit and wait out the storm which increased in intensity through Thursday and into Friday night.

As the harbor is quite large we had a lot of small sharp wave action of up to a foot, not a good time to dinghy ashore. It continued to blow very hard from the NNE throughout Wednesday and Wednesday night, all day Thursday and Thursday night.