It's New years day and the most quiet I ever heard the Island.

We arrived in San Pedro a little later than we thought. But we're here and snoozing a little today after walking down the beach for lunch.

I've been taking pics of birds as you can see from the two warblers, am I right? Anyway the house is surround with trees that attract all kinds of birds. I've got some great shots of hummingbirds that I will post some day.

Kay has a wedding today and then nothing until after we leave so she will be available to do things with us soon. Not that there is really that much to do. The wind has been terrible since we got here and has just shown promise of getting lighter today. I'll go diving after the water clears up some. Something interesting took place on the island about three days ago. No one would have known anything about it except the online paper got word and published the names and ages of six boat people from Cuba who washed ashore in their boat a few days ago. The article said that they had been detained at the police station and their names recorded and then towed back out into the night and 20 to 30foot seas, then allowed to go on their way. I thought the solution was cruel and surely would mean certain death to anyone in a poor craft with no knowledge of sailing. They were reportedly trying to get to Grand Caman. I've sailed there from Honduras and know that they didn't have a chance with a northerly coming through and no chance of getting anywhere except here with the winds as they were and are today. They have swung around more easterly today after a big rain last night.

I of course, was talking about how great it would have been to interview them and go out in the boat that towed them offshore to send them to their deadly fate. I was seeing their eyes looking back as they rose up on a wave and the police boats search light scanned the faces making sure they were all six accounted for before leaving them to the raging sea. I was really into it until my friend Kay explained how things are done on this island.

It seems that Belize is a friend to Cuba, but they also wouldn't send back people or put them in prison for that matter. No one would go out in those terrible seas anyway. Chances are good that they were taken to the mainland and placed with the many Cuban people who live there. A much better ending, don't you think? No one is talking so I'm going to believe that the story ended the way it should.

The six men were labors and were looking for work. It's bad all over. It is really time to lift the embargo on Cuba so our unemployed won't get mixed in together. Perhaps our unemployed could take off in boats for Cuba where they could cut sugar cane, or help grow rice. Oh my, I'm beginning to recall some of the lobbies against raising the embargo. Oh well, just a little mental exercise.

We're having pizza for dinner, they deliver. It's getting dark.