Day 150 Sick day

Pictures in the paper
I woke up at 0430 feeling ill and spent the entire day in bed.
Mark and Kurt went with Jim to check out the surf on the South reefs and came back at mid-day to report that there was no surf. The wind and waves are coming from the wrong directions at the moment and any potential surf is "knocked down" by their interaction.
Andy came back to the boat in the afternoon with the Saturday paper. To our surprise, one-half of page two was take up by our pictures and story. Interestingly, our pictures conveyed the look of four very unhappy and upset people. I don't think we meant to pose that way but that must have been how we were feeling and it definitely came across in the picture.
The story also captured Mark's comments very accurately, even quoting him directly on his observations about the impact this might have on their tourist trade. The reporter's own spin included a subtle message about the pride of the island being damaged as well.
That evening, Kurt and Andy went to a club where they were recognized by people who expressed that they were sorry this had happened to us.
All in all, it was a surprising expression of concern that we don't think would have happened in many of the place we had been.