For reasons that are no longer valid, I published this journal using WordPress between the above dates.  On April 18, 2009, the WordPress entries inexplicably and irretrevably vanished into cyberspace, never more to be seen by man or computer.  Perhaps a solo sailor took them with him on his way to Africa. 

        I have the original entries and photographs and am, if only for my own amusement, gradually restoring them.