Today started out with a whale and dolphin watching trip that basically became a dolphin and cuttlefish-watching trip, as the whales were spending Christmas further out to sea. The cuttlefish, of which previously I’ve only known from feeding bones to Squeak, are pretty spectacular-looking animals: rainbow colored with brown tentacles.

This afternoon has been devoted to nothing. I’m sitting around the plantation, looking out over the water, a rum punch in my hand, and it’s 78 degrees.

Not bad, not bad at all.