May 6



7:58 am.  I’m relaxing after just finishing my morning Sudoku when I hear kid’s voices.  I go up the companionway and there is a woman in a launch with four little kids and two dogs!  It was Sophia, the current operator of Also Island since Jim has passed.  I think she just wanted to say thank you for the glasses I dropped off yesterday.  She kept asking if I was coming in today and I tried to gesture at the dinghy already snugged up under the davits for travel.  I said ‘too windy’.  She gave me that look of ‘I’m in a launch with four little kids and two dogs and you’re saying it’s too windy?’  Yeah, I’m a wimp, Sophia.   Actually I prefer the moniker ‘cautious sailor’.  This sailboat ain’t goin’ anywhere today.


Today was supposed to be the day I leave Also Island, weather permitting.  Well, weather didn’t permit.  Holy moly, the winds whipping over the hills to the east!  Shaking the boat even.  I need calm waters to negotiate the next passage; it’s a windy, narrow pass maybe denoted by markers in the water, maybe not.  It’s supposed to be only 15 feet deep at one point.  Yeah, I think I want calm water for this one.  I don’t have cell access here - I picked the wrong carrier for this trip, I guess.  So I’m sailing blind re weather until I get farther along the coast to pick up a Digicell signal again.  


I guess maybe if the winds die down (hah!) I might drop the dink again and motor in to see her.  It would be good to get the full story about Jim’s passing as well as a tour of Also Is.  But the way the boat is rocking right now, I think today is a reading day.  Maybe I’ll start my downloads of ‘Silo’ since it seems to put me to sleep at night.


10:37 am.  Another launch shows up, this time with a young father and his three little kids.  Turns out the kids had never seen a sailboat up close and he was giving them a look-see.  Too bad it was so windy - I would have invited them for a tour inside.  I had cookies for the kids.

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