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Marvelous weather and wind shifting Southerly. Making good speed. Went for mainland behind [[red underline]] Card Point [[/red underline]] to find a little stream. Did not find it but excellent white sandy beach. Good swimming. Found 4 timber posts loaded them on deck 
About noon. Ate cold canned beans. Excellent if one feels hungry and saves cooking. Then Northward. Wind shifting Westerly and [[strikethrough]] getti[[strikethrough]] threatening clouds. Try to reach anchorage north of Sand Key Point before shoal. [[red underline]] Wirth Munroe [[/red underline]]tells me weather is unsettled expects a Northern. While furling sail he suddenly exclaims, [[red underline]] hear the squall [[/red underline]]
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coming. In the distance I hear a faint roar. Two or three minutes later [[red underline]] squall strikes us [[/red underline]] and it starts blowing violently. Fortunately we are furled and at anchor. Mosquitoes had just begun their attack but the violent wind has dispersed them all. Wirth [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] Munroe tells me Easterly breeze is usually followed after one or 2 days by Southerly then Westerly then Northerly and NE, and unless NE changes again to E it is liable to blow NE violently for days and even weeks in succession. [[red underline]] Sand Key is owned by Mr. Hines. [[/red underline]] Wind kept blowing