January 14

January 14

I've finally lost track of time...no idea how many days we're been here. Every night we go to bed around 7 pm...maybe watch a movie or read. Asleep by 10 at the latest. We wake up in the middle of the night to a howling wind generator, and check the GPS to make sure we haven't dragged. In the morning Rick makes coffee and we compare the black sky to the weather report.

Some people have managed to head a bit further south but they were already passed the Whale..that incredibly wild passage between islands that boats who are deep draught [5-7 feet] have to take. We are still waiting for the "Don't Rock" shallows to smooth out so we can go over them.

The weather seems to be backwards here. Every night the winds get stronger and seem to die down mid-day, but that's when the tides are low, so we dare not cross the shallows at low tide. The plus side...when the sun is gone the wind are keeping our batteries charged. Of course, if we could leave here the motor would do that too!

Last night we all had dinner on C-Soul. We took our grill food, Gail made a great GF  pasta salad, Diane made corn pudding [almost like a corn sponge cake- awesome] and I made GF cherry cheese cake. Good times!

Today we rented a golf cart with Mark and Gail, and travelled the length of the island. It was a great 4-hour trek and we saw lots of it.

Tomorrow we are going to switch props to see if we can get some more speed out of our petit cochon.

So... 7:30...bed time.