Back to JHam on your comment: “Dude, once the rum runs out the sailing stops”. You are absolutely right! That’s why we’re making all haste to a place with access to liquor. The only problem is good rum costs $120 down here. Fijian, but that’s still $60 US, so we are having to economize a bit (darn). Just finished the last of our wine tonight too. This is going to be an expensive stop. Well, that’s OK though since we haven’t spend a dime in the last three weeks.

Cliff Smith: Most of our hooks are buried in the lazarette right now, but I can tell you that they are at least 5/0 and probably up to 8/0. We brought a bunch or 2/0 to 4/0 for trading with locals. We figured that they would want something a bit smaller for reef fishing, but it turns out they like the big hooks. As they put it; “we want to catch biiig fish”. Anyway, on the remote islands extra hooks and lures are much appreciated and make good trade for papayas, bananas, etc.

To Kate Eaton: The booby that landed on our dinghy was a red footed one (the feet really look more orange than red). We saw blue footed boobies in Mexico, so they are outside of the Galapagos. All the ones out here though are red footed (but they have the same goofy expression when they stand on your dinghy and look at you!).