Journal Entry #40 - The Cruz del Sur

18 September 2002 - Matt

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The Boat

 

Just a quick shot of the boat that brought us safely through the perfect storm...  ok... not the perfect storm...  a rain shower, but there were some pretty damn choppy waves.  The boat held about 16 passengers and another 5 crew members or so.  We were the only Americans on board, and we had a great time goofin' off with folks from Spain, Italy, Britain, Ireland and Columbia.

 

The 'majestic' Cruz del Sur

 

At one point, as we were crossing a particularly rough stretch of water, everyone got really green, with the exception of the crew and yours truly.  Ironically (or maybe not?) the crew decided to serve dinner at the usual time, exactly during the crossing, instead of waiting until 9:30 when we'd be anchored in calm water.  It goes without saying that people were more interested in keeping what they had eaten that day in their stomachs then actually adding anything else to the pot.  So I sat there with the crew, watching some Spanish language movie I couldn't understand, eating my vittles with the rest of 'em while everyone else tossed their cookies downstairs in their rooms.

 

The Crew

 
Not that any of you give a frog's fat ass, but we enjoyed hanging out with the crew.  Two that we especially enjoyed were the guide, Diego, and Richard, one of the mates.  Richard actually let me fish with him one night by hand line...  it was a lot of fun.  I felt that unique, you know, Latino-Gringo bond.  Until he leaned over and kissed me, at which point I had to throw him overboard.  But we made up the next day.

Diego

Richard

 

 

Those Silly Italians

 

I wish we'd gotten more shots of this guy and his buddies.  They were two brothers and two friends, and all of them seemed very close.  They definitely had that Italian cool about them, and they were a lot of fun.

 

Luigi, or whatever his name was, kept inching closer and closer to this sea lion, until it finally decided that it didn't particularly care for Europeans and started after him.  What a hoot.