A wonderful hour of snorkeling around this morning. It almost didn’t happen. Before I got in the water I saw 3 jellyfish. I am pretty fearless in the ocean. Except for cold. And jellyfish. And our jellyfish aren’t even that dangerous. But, there were lots of people in the ocean. None of them seemed to be getting stung. So, in I went. Clear water. Perfect conditions.
Took lots of video. None worth showing. But, Not often do I come upon a flounder. this guy is small and was in 20 feet of water. With my wet suit and covid 5 pounds – I couldn’t get very close. But:
It’s pretty bad. I was messing with my GoPro Settings. What part of “if it works don’t fix it” am I having trouble with?
But thinking. Thinking about the Omicron variant. (FYI – the greek alphabet has 24 letters, omicron is 15? Going to run out of letters before we run out of covid)
Thinking that I got lucky with my trip to Alaska. I was safely back in the Asylum before the summer covid surge kicked in. It might still be safe on Xmas Eve. But, things might get worse. Fast. The prudent move would be to just go back to the asylum next week. So not happening.
Plan B is to be prepared to leave Kona within 12 hours. Morning. Wakeup. Access situation. If necessary, get a flight out at 10ish that night. Back in the Asylum by 4PM the next day. That would leave about 6 frantic hours of “breaking camp”. I know that it is nearly always possible to get a flight to DCA from here same day. I even checked this morning. Just to be sure.
So, all this really means is that I have to keep my “camp” here a bit more organized. Anything that I am not going to use should be shipped home soon. (I found some things in the box that I had stored at the Seaside hotel that really would like to keep. My fish book. A jeans skirt. A stupid white dress. Some t-shirts that don’t have cats and/or snarky sayings on them. Stuff that I don’t need but am willing to put in a flat rate box to send home.) And I should dispose of the rest of the stuff. Now. Not later.
I will not go all crazy and not buy a box of oatmeal or 6 pack of beer “because I might bail tomorrow.”
Prepare for the worst. Hope for the best.
What would make me decide to bail? If they say that my 3 Pfizer shots will not provide protection. And the variant is really surging in the US.
One thing this omicron variant has done is to quash any hope I had that the Seaside Hotel might reopen in January and I could have another month of Kona. The state has leased the hotel to stash covid quarantines. I gotta think the state will want to keep the hotel for another 3 months.
Wreckage of the future, Carlton would say. Wreckage of the future. So, I have my plan. I will attend to shipping some stuff back home. And I will enjoy every minute of Kona. Hopefully until Dec 24.