Karla Bendor, Dan's wife, pulls up, and we quickly load the boats onto the car.
Unknown to most at the time, Castro had also made sure to load the boats with prison inmates, mental patients, and a host of others classed as "undesirables", in what must rate as one of history's greatest acts of illegal dumping.
As the helicopters approached, men who were loading the boat fled, the official said.
Afterward, as the rest of the crew loaded the boat and equipment onto the trailer, Paradis gave me a tour of the expanding river mouth.
As we loaded the boat onto Dave's trailer, Craig looked at his watch and snarled that any students back at the parking lot on time would flunk the course for lacking the proper time-oblivious enthusiasm.
The four little children who went round the world took with them a pussycat, a Quangle-Wangle as chef, and loaded the boat with "two thousand veal-cutlets, and a million of chocolate-drops".
And so, having loaded the boat back onto the car (Murdo's wife had generously delivered it), we use local knowledge to wash up in Diggers, an infamous old gravediggers' pub, that we both know well, and there, in talk, we are borne back ceaselessly into the past.
We think any pullbacks to the $25 to $27 level should warrant a nibble, but would avoid loading the boat with the stock in its current range.
