Over the last week or so, Matt and I have been really thinking about how our time on Seguin is coming to an end. The weather has started to turn a bit cooler, and we can feel fall in the air. We have less than one month left here on the island, so we’ve started to plan how we’ll start to move our gear back to shore on our last few resupply days. There will be so many things we’ll miss about island life once our time as keepers has passed.
With the end of summer in mind, it was fitting that today our first visitors today were former keepers Cyndy Carney (2007), Mary Killery (2013), and Greg Guckenburg (2013). They had a chance to hike the trail, gather some blackberries, and then we sat around the porch talking a bit about how things on the island have changed, and a lot about how they haven’t. I think Greg had it right when he said that just when you get in your rhythm and understand the island, it’s time to go.
I hope that some day in the future Matt and I will be back on Seguin and chatting with the keepers about our days pumping water from the well to keep the cisterns full, the never-ending battle with trail maintenance, our rituals around the hot water heater, and all the places our dog Tulah got stuck in brambles.
Daily Weather Report
Temperature: 67.5F/59.0F
Sunny with increasing winds
Wind: 4.5mph SW Gust 13.5mph
High Tide: 12:58am / 1:28pm
Low Tide: 7:16am / 7:38pm
