Another day in Thompson Bay

It's January 9th and it sounds like we will be here through the weekend anyway?  The guy from the cat ketch rig stopped over this morning with a recording of Chris Parker's cruiser's marine forecast.  Walter has a nice new SSB transceiver but it's not working yet as it requires some thing or another.  Walter also has an icon SSB receiver that he can connect to a laptop but needs to connect that to the mast head antenna of his non complete SSB transceiver.  I think he plans to do that today.  We have learned of beaches on the outside of Long Island just across from Thompson Bay so that's what Candace and I will be up to today.  I found yesterday hanging out on the boat and reading etc very relaxing.  Candace was more bouncing off the walls so she's excited at the idea of some beach running.  As it turned out all 3 of us went to the beach today.  It was a nice beach a mile or 2 long but as is the usual on beaches around the world these days it was full of plastic trash washed up from the waves.  It seems even in remote wild places plastic trash is often washed up on the beach.  Only 'maintained' beaches with resorts, private homes or park lands with adequate funds is the plastic trash picked up as it is continually deposited from the ocean currents, wind and waves.  

Today turned out to be nice with very light winds and there was consideration that maybe we should have set out this morning.  It was just some report of strong winds Sunday on the Chris Parker report that kept us from leaving.. Well, that and the fact that it was already almost 11 AM... It rained a couple times and was still blustery until then.

Candace and Walter have coconuts with painted lettering they were going to today but the Salt Pond Post Office was lacking and they wouldn't take them.  Only letters or postcards could be mailed from there.?