Back in Georgetown, waiting for a taxi to the airport, we do a last-minute dash around the street stalls: all I salvage are an oil painting of the Kaieteur Falls (a rather Surrealist interpretation), a shell necklace, a woven basket and as much El Dorado rum as possible, before the plane carries us to a connecting flight at Barbados, and the waters change from brown to a shock of bright blue.
Brighton needed a late equaliser even to salvage a point in their 1-1 home draw with struggling Ipswich.
So I feel that the only course open to Cantona which could possibly salvage his career in this country would be, first, an admission of guilt, and second, an unequivocal and genuine apology.
Hardy made a valiant attempt to try and salvage the situation, but Hawley was long gone.
The man who had already picked up more Oscars than anyone on stage was there as guest of honour: Willie Fulgear, the 61-year-old freelance salvage worker who found 52 of the 55 stolen Oscars in LA's Koreatown last week, looked more of a star with his snappy fedora than many of the real ones.
Garcia, who works for the US law firm Kirkland & Ellis, has been scrabbling to salvage his reputation ever since the Eckert summary was released and widely condemned.
The 67-year-old German, brought out of retirement to try to salvage UBS in 2009, refused to comment to reporters as he left the lengthy meeting which had been scheduled to finish on the Friday.
Yet even now, amid the rancour at Hillsborough, Sinn Féin still appears to want to salvage the present power-sharing government.
The Irish southpaw who captured the WBO middleweight championship in December came off the canvas twice on Saturday to salvage a split draw against Peter Quillin in a 12-round fight at Barclays Center.
The government has quite a difficult choice here: agree to the Labor amendments and salvage at least some of the proposal, or run the gauntlet of an unpredictable Senate.
Republicans said it would now be up to Obama to salvage the bill if he wanted to see his trade agenda through.
