This morning and tomorrow morning are the peak of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. This morning after the moon set I had maybe twenty minutes of clear skies and saw one good meteor before a cloud moved in an shut that session down. But before it did, the skies were gorgeous. It's really a shame what all the sodium vapor lighting does in even a small city lightscape. Here the Milky Way pops out at you from horizon to horizon. Venus is as bright as it will be all year.
We're going to play with the kayaks again this afternoon, but reading needs to be done. I stepped outside and found a white ibis probing the leaf litter for a meal. Successfully, too!
Got the camera and learned the humbling lessons of wildlife photography. They do not pose. They don't let you get close. You never have the right lens. The background is always wrong.
But you shoot anyway.
Found a nice blog from a NY couple sailing the Bahamas with 2 kids. Look up S/V Pelican. He did a really good job explaining the communication options from the Bahamas. Batelco has successfully locked up the market. Skype is actually illegal! High speed internet is very hard to come by. His solution is Iridium satellite phones and a cable to allow email that way. He makes a very good economic argument for that large 'per minute' charge whenyou compare it with the Batelco 'per megabite' charge and a slow modem. I'm going to really look carefully at a Pactor modem to use with my SSB/Ham radio. I know that I can talk on this radio to Georgetown and even though the equipment cost is around $1300.00 there are no charges after that.
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