From: John Barbie [jbarbie11@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 1:21 PM
To: rutharras@yahoo.com
Subject: Still Here

We really don't have all that much to say after our
Frank email.  The next best thing we've seen in the
water was a snake and a dead turtle with a seagull on
its back.  Not to say that we are bored.  Quite the
contrary.  John has been surfing daily here Puerto
Escondido which is probably a good thing after soaking
up some McDonalds grease in Alcapulco, a bad
interpretation of LA in Mexico.  John wants to hang
out here as long as possible and I am hesitant to
believe it is the waves not the topless women that
draw his attention.  
 
Spot and John have been attentive fisherman while
cruising. In a 4 hour period they hooked 3 fish and
only brought one into the boat.  Needless to say it
was the reels fault which John quickly dissassembled,
springs and all.  It is still in 40 pieces floating
around our boat.  I am getting tired of eating tuna
and even more tired of bleeding, gutting, and fileting
the fish (which, if you check, isn't in the definition
of fisherman).  Fortunately we discovered that pour a sufficient amount of alcohol down the fishes mouth exepmts you from beating it to death with a winch handle.  I hope we don't catch any marlin or else we'll be out of booze.  

We are now approaching a notoriously windy stretch of
bay nicknamed the T-Peckers.  Unfortunately that will
mean no quick catnaps for me during my night shift or
else we'll end up on land.  John is much more alert on
his shifts and even stars on the horizon call for a
change of course and much anxiety.  Spot is actually
the best watch of the three of us accutely aware of
dolphins and flapping sails.  On land he's pretty good
at suprise attacks on horses and 'odd' looking people
which can mean anyone with a beard (John now has one),
a hat, or Lennon glasses.  We are still stumped by his
erratic behavior.  

For once we are the largest boat in the bay. 
Unfortunately, or not, we are also the only boat
perhaps because every afternoon the waves pick up and
our boat looks like the newest adventure ride in
Disney Land. I am still trying to teach John to cap
all liquids BEFORE they spill.  

As previously mentioned, there really isn't much to
report other than sunny weather, head and a half waves
and burgers/fries for 2 bucks.  

Hope all is well elsewhere.

Ruth (John and Spot)


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