As we got in the car this morning, Meriwether was laughing quietly to himself. I asked him what was so funny. "I remember that place we went yesterday, the place with the turtle you rescued. It was the place where we got caught in a sudden storm. Came up almost instantly. Caught the keelboat and almost flipped it over. That might have ended the expedition right there. Guys all jumped overboard and pulled out the anchor line and used it and another cable to pull the boat into deeper water. Otherwise, it would have been driven up on the shore and torn apart. Looking back on it, it looked pretty funny, all those guys out there pulling on lines and cussing. Wish we had had the ways of traveling you now have. Then where we stayed
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