Today I came back to the airport, a one hour walk along the sea shore. The waves were quite high, but with the low tide there was lots of shore to walk on. I got the satellite working but the battery went dead so I cannot email from the shack. It seems that once I get the sat. up the batteries die or the computer dies. Well either way you may not hear from me again for a couple days until I walk back out here.
Seals
Christmas morning I was thrilled that Lisa still liked it out here. In fact she is having a great time. Christmas morning we hiked about 5 miles, not very far, and sitting in the same place we sat two years ago in the dune we saw three seals. I have one very far away photo of them they were so cute bobbing in the water along the shore. Then at night it was so dark outside, just before the moon came up and we could see the whole Milky Way, it was fantastic. I forget how huge the sky looks and how bright the stars are living in NYC. Then the moon came up and it was so bright it lit up the whole area around the shack. It was been quite cold in the morning but the winds have died down to almost nothing so if feels pretty good, right now it is a very toasty 50 degrees in the kitchen, though that is right over the propane two burner stovetop so in reality it is about 40 which does not feel too bad.
Shocking idea: How about running hamsters in a cage–they’ll have to keep running to stay warm–to generate electricity to run your satellite receiver? Tim is very good with things electrical. I’m sending him up tomorrow.