We reached Tortuga and the anchor was dropped. We had to wait for a little wooden boat to come and pick us up and take us to shore. Since the little boat didn’t have a motor, there was a Haitian guy that had a long, thick stick that he used to pole the boat in the water. It kind of reminded me of a gondola. Because they were so many of us, the little boat had to take a couple trips. The first boat load of people left and while the rest of us where waiting, some of the guys decided that they didn’t want to wait for the boat to come back. So they decided they were going to swim to shore. The shore was a good ways away from the boat, but after swimming a little bit, you could just stand up and walk the rest of the way to shore. So they set off swimming to shore and had the rest of us take their shoes and shirts ashore. The boat came back and took the last of us to shore. As we were heading to shore we noticed that some of the guys who had decided to swim to shore, were walking pretty funny and they kept looking in the water. As we got closer we asked them what was going on. They replied by telling us that they were trying not to step on of the many sea urchins that were scattered all over the place. A lot of the guys that decided to swim to shore ended up with lots of sea urchin spines in the bottom of their feet. For those who don’t know, stepping on a sea urchin is almost like stepping on a piece of glass. The night before we left I remember someone who worked at Northwest Haiti Christian Mission telling my group to make sure we wear our shoes, it’s too bad that those guys had to find out why the hard way.
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