March 5. 2007

Even the locals have had enough of the constant cold fronts that seem to hit us every 3 days. This week we have had 2 cold fronts a day apart. In other news, they have found that Lake Superior is warming faster than had been projected ... the research folks are now looking for money to investigate ... the mantle is no longer in place along the Atlantic sea bed mid ocean ... seems there is a piece of earths crust missing around the Canary Islands ... so much for the theory of plate Tectonics. Toronto
has closed the Gardiner Expressway today due to falling ice sheets from the CN Tower. They are waiting for the wind direction to change before they open up the highway. In the Bahamas we heard (on very public VHF radio) a very irate Yank tearing a strip off the Bahamian government officials because they would not grant him an immigration stay extension a month before his current 50 day one expires. His crowning argument was that even though he had stocked up the boat in the US before coming to the
Bahamas he planned to spend a couple of hundred dollars on supplies if he was allowed to stay. One thing has become very clear ... most Yanks don't consider the Bahamas as a country but rather as an extension of Florida. Sad. What is even sadder is that the Bahamian Government is allowing unchecked development funded by US companies to occur that will destroy the natural beauty of their country. The Bakers Bay golf course development, if it is allowed to proceed, will destroy the best reef on the
North end of the Bahamas. There seems to be a move afoot by folks to see the natural wonders of the world before they are gone forever ... only problem is that the influx of tourists is the very thing that is destroying the environment once you consider the support structure that is required to support the increased tourist trade. enough . brian