This morning, Buzz and the students are off to Buck Island. I spoke with the boys and they said they weren't that interested in doing the Buck Island tour again this year, so we're having a quiet morning back at Cottages. It's the first lazy morning I've had this trip. Daniel had one lazy morning when I was meeting with the refuge manager. Charlie's been able to have a lazy morning nearly every morning, although randomly cut short when Jonathan would want him for something -- but usually not until 9:30 or so. It's nice to take things slow for a change.
I'm setting up a couple of trail cameras which we'll put out sometime this afternoon to observe mongooses at the traps. When the boys get up, I'll see about organizing some laundry and then we'll drive over the Christiansted to meet the team when they get back from Buck Island. Normally, the trip would have been in the afternoon and have dinner at the brewpub, but BigBeards is only running morning trips in the slow season. It's a lot of work to get everything organized in time to get over there by 8:30. It's another reason I'm glad we didn't go.