Oh, crap -- what'd I start now? I should know better than to joke around. So - here's tonight's ending update.
Junior left Land's End about one minute before I got there -- so I didn't ride with. But he did find detailed information showing that indeed, there's less water this evening than there was at noontime. Then the course was not too wet - wet spots, maybe a few puddles - a mile or so either side of mid-course. Say, that is, from about the four and a half to the six and a half. By late afternoon the wind had moved water around so that the not-too-bad stretch was more like three or four miles long.
While he was out on the course in the early afternoon a big ol' storm blew in, bringing light rain for almost one minute. But it was windy -- like 40-50 mph, he said, blowing the standing water hard enough that it was up and over his/their shoes. The rain didn't amount to much, obviously, but the wind moved lots of water. Lots of it blew through the breech in the dike and onto the course, yes, but that water kept moving with the wind -- blowing it from the race course towards Land's End. And that's good. There is obviously less water on the course now than there was earlier today. I took a couple of photos and haven't even loaded them into this machine yet - will post this and then show you the photos in another minute or two.
Maybe in the morning I'll manage to roll out of this luxury lodging facility in time to go with Junior on his first recon mission of the day. I'll try to do it - and bring the first set of photos from out there. But first -- I'll get tonight's photos on here.
