Thursday – Castle beach to Blckpoint (laundry) then onto DECCA stm at Pipe cay – 3/14/19Friday- Pipe Cay to Warderick wells – 3/15/19
We hunted for shells all morning, sailed all afternoon to Warderick Wells, baked cookies with kids after dinner, snuggled in the cockpit reading stories together….then after they were asleep we hoisted the cell phone 45 feet up the mast to pick up a distant cell tower for our all-important offshore weather forecasts. Of course, that also means we get email and see the news highlights. It’s hard to completely ‘turn it off,’ even out here.
This week in particular – news and reports from family and friends have hit home hard. Avalanches and blizzards in Colorado are affecting friends, extreme flooding is affecting Nebraska where Mike has a lot of extended family – many of whom are stuck at work, or at home, or away from their families tonight. Pets stranded, cattle marooned on farm fields that are now islands, family with flooded crop land. Mike’s sister lives in Christchurch, NZ. She is safe but lives within a community reeling from a mass shooting. We’re even entangled in the unfortunate news about the Boeing 737 Max aircraft issues abroad – our flights home in a few weeks include a leg on a Max 9 that will need to be rebooked or rescheduled by the airline.
We are blessed to be together with Henry and Emma, safe and sound, in this protected harbour. Even though we may be a thousand miles away on a boat, but know that we are thinking of friends and family back home each day and as we write these updates each night. We look forward to catching up soon. We expect to be “back to normal” by April 1st, which is the Monday that the kids plan to climb back on the school bus. If you’d like to reach out, our cell phones and home phone should be back to normal by then as well.
Fun Afloat 