I've been having trouble getting connected to Sailmail. It could be bad radio propagation, it could be that my modem was set too low, and it could be that our batteries
weren't charged enough. We've been trying not to run the generator, but the wind has not been that strong, and although the batteries have been OK, they haven't
been totally charged. So today we ran the generator for about two and a half hours and got them completely charge. Of course by then it was noon and that's the
worst time of day to transmit because of atmospheric interference from energy from the sun. So I'm going to try again this evening, hopefully all three entries will go.

We're waiting on a weather window to go to Long Island. There is a front coming through tomorrow night. In the States it brought 60 and 70 knot winds, in the
northern Bahamas the winds might gust to 40 to 50 knots. Here, there may be no squalls at all, but we may get some, so it's best to stay in a harbor that has protection
from all directions. If the front passes by Wednesday morning we'll probably leave then.

Meanwhile, we took another hike up to the monument today. Bud tried to get a picture of how steep the one section of trail is. I'll add the picture he took of me
carrying Fuzzy in the front pack. You can kind of get the idea from that. The weather has been perfect again the last couple of days. Hot in the sun, but cool in the
shade and the wind blows hard enough to keep you from getting uncomfortable. Plus the water is finally getting warm.

Since we were just hanging out today Bud took the time to cook a beef roast he bought. It was only about $5 a pound, which didn't seem too bad. He made a pot
roast, cooking it slowly on the stove for three hours. It came out really good, and because of the breeze, didn't even overheat the boat. We just finished eating and
the sun is going down, so I'm going to wrap this up and hope I can finally connect and post these.

I never got them posted. I came to Georgetown, got on the Internet and copied the entries from my Sailmail entries and emailed them to myself so I could get them from the Windows side of my computer to the Mac side. Argg!