STORMY Weather On Our Way To Gibraltar | And Life On The Rock | Ep. 43

We had a lovely morning with a pretty sunrise and the sea was still calm. This did not take very long unfortunately… As soon as the sun was up, the sea became very choppy and the wind picked up. That was the beginning of a very bumpy ride. The waves hit the boat so hard in the front that the water sprayed all the way over the boat. We would have been soaking wet if it wasn’t for the enclosure. Just after lunchtime, a thunderstorm surprised us in the Gulf of Cadiz. Even though we checked the weather regularly and we were listening to the weather reports given out by the coast guard none of it mentioned the dark cloud mass we saw approaching. It started with wind gusts and heavy rain and a little later we saw lightning in the distance. It looked like the darkest clouds weren’t going to pass over us so we kept our course in the direction of the thinner, lighter clouds. Little did we know that that was not the end of the storm yet but there were some more dark clouds following, filled with electri