And (chuckles) it’s a wonder I’m here today, because this was a American Museum, Natural History expedition. The co-owner of the little schooner, a 45-foot schooner had been a Navy destroyer commander. So I felt he must know the business but (sighs) he didn’t, and he couldn’t read the water, which in The Bahamas is essential. But at any rate I spent, we spent five and a half months from late December to May in The Bahamas, sailing down the whole length. And that includes the Turks and Caicos Islands as well as what’s officially The Bahama islands and the other members of the crew included a man who worked with Archie Carr, and who’d sailed his own little sloop down from Canada down the East Coast. And I felt he had the capacity if we got into difficulty. So fortunately he did. The other member of the crew was a grad student in entomology Out of the University of Kansas.
