Wednesday August 15th

We put our mosquito netting up as usual last night, and slept well all night.  So did the bugs!  When we woke, there were hundreds on the outside of the netting and also on the inside of the netting and the ceiling of the boat.  Uugh!  Not sure what they were – they looked like mosquitos but they didn’t bite.  And we don’t know how they got in.  The netting is not totally bug proof, but they had to work hard to find the way in, and there were no lights on to attract them while we slept.  Oh well – the joys of nature.

We set off for Burton Island, 44° 46.59N 73° 11.71W, and motored the 6nm on a windless day.  Burton Island is a Vermont state park and we explored on foot.  One of the trails had a Dr. Suess book - The Lorax - with a page every 100 yards or so.  So we read the book as we walked the trail.  Of course it’s for kids, and the story was about a greedy business man destroying forest and habitat, in his quest for riches.  Nice for kids to be reading this while they’re out in nature!  “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better – it’s not”. 

Ship’s log: 2166.5 Today's log: 6.1nm, Season total: 531.0 nm