This past week has been fairly uneventful except for a few notable changes.
For the past 4 days I've been painting in the generator building. I'm putting two coats of white semi-gloss on the interior cinder block walls. I've had a couple of volunteers from boats in the mooring field here to help me, Rosemary (not the one whose been living here) and Debbie. We started second coat yesterday and it is starting to look quite nice.
I woke up with a cold about 4 days ago and on day two I had laryngitis. I still have the laryngitis and congestion. This virus seems to have arrived with one of the multitude of RBDF guys who waited out a wind storm here early in the week. Since then there have been several people getting sick. Fran had it a couple days before me, Tom started his a day or so later than me and a few others have been sick too. So I'll wait it out a couple more days. I've been taking echinacea with goldenseal, decongestants, antihistamines (for the Latex paint fumes) and extra vitamins for strength.
There have been 3 dinner parties up at the Warden's (Ranger Ray's) house this past week. Two for the Nekton crew from the Cachelot. One for them and the second because they had a bunch of thawed steaks that had to be barbecued (they called it charred flesh). Them Rosie, Eric and Burgess hosted one for their last supper here. They made lots of excellent Indian food including my personal favourite Peanut Sate sauce. All in all I've eaten well this week.
The Nekton guys brought our supply shipment with them so we have ton-a-food again. It was getting to be slim pickin's especially for a person with a limited diet. Last night after Happy Hour I made cookies and raisin bread. The cookie recipe is from the Bahama Mama's Cooking book (which I will likely buy before leaving). The cookies are great and the raisin bread made good toast this morning.
The family of three that has been here for nearly three weeks left yesterday to start the kayak trip they came here to do. They had hoped to leave 3 or 4 days ago but had not completed the work they came to do for the park. I did a short mpeg of their departure and will email it to them sometime over the next few days.
I have decided to leave here at the end of this week. I have had a couple of tempting offers from some very nice folks in the mooring field to leave with them on a heading to Georgetown. Unfortunately, thought, the first offer was to leave 4 days ago and the second is to leave today or tomorrow. I feel it is necessary to complete my committment to volunteer at the park for the full month. So, hopefully, there will be more oppotunities to hitch a lift to Georgetown later this week. Everyone I've met is so nice it really gives one renewed faith in the human condition.
Today is a short day. That means that on Sundays we usually work until 1:00 then take the rest of the day off. I want to hike down to the south anchorage this afternoon. It should take about 1 3/4 hours each way. I may put my snorkel gear over my shoulder and try to get in the water to see the stamadolites that are there. The stramadolites are what Rosie (Rosemary) and Eric were here to study. They said the best time to see them is at slack tide because of the current in the south anchorage. It is very strong through there and that makes it hard swimming and could get dangerous in the wrong weather conditions.
Well I'm off to start work early so that I can quit early.
Posted by gailene at February 2, 2003 08:08 AM