It's anything but tropical out here. The sky is completely overcast, and everything looks gray and miserable. The wind is hovering around the mid-20s, with the apparent wind a bit higher, and occaisional rain. We've got the main sail reefed and are motor sailing, and most of the time we can point directly towards the Galapagos with the apparent wind around 30 degrees. We did have a brief moment of disappointment last night when we had to bear away 20 degrees, but the wind came back south about an hour later. With less than 300 nautical miles to go, we're hoping to arrive early Tuesday morning. To make up for lost time, we plan to leave within 24 hours. We just need to get fuel and a few provisions, which shouldn't be too difficult. I'm hoping they can bring fuel drums to the boat and pump it directly into our tanks. We've had a couple of uninvited guests in the last two days, though not as many as I expected for this area. Some of them didn't survive the enc...