Cloud hole hunting

Today we took off delayed because we had to wait until a shower passed by. ACTOS became airborne at 14:00 UTC (10:00 local). At the beginning we performed a low level leg at 200 ft (ACTOS) heading to C1 near Ragged Point. Afterwards, we had to ascend to avoid a shower at the east coast and climbed up to 8500 ft above the cloud top. Cloud base was located at about 1500 ft. Unfortunately, the cloud situation was dominated by a heavy shower nearby so cloud chasing became a difficult task. Cloud top was highly variable (see picture) and we decided to descend and tried to catch the cumulus clouds at about 3000 ft. On our way back we had to ascend again to avoid another shower and climbed up to 10000 ft. Above this shower we found a stratiform layer covering nearly the whole island, which confronted the pilots with a new task: cloud hole hunting. Finally, we found one to descend below and performed a last horizontal leg at 2000 ft heading Grantley Adams.