BIDING THE BREAKERS 



at Boca Grande could come through this little 

 surf by itself if all its crew was asleep." 



We paddled down Charlotte Harbor under 

 the lee of Gasparilla Island in water so smooth 

 that the Camera-man said it made him seasick. 

 When we reached our cruising boat it was near 

 the last of the ebb tide and the black stream from 

 the Peace River flowing out of the Big Pass 

 kept within the emerald walls of the Gulf water 

 as a river between its banks. 



A little later the tide turned and the incoming 

 flow from the Gulf brought rolling porpoises, 

 leaping tarpon, and hideous sharks through the 

 now smooth waters of the treacherous pass. The 

 Camera-man proposed that we go in search of 

 the tarpon we had lost, but I quoted to him: 



"A sportsman stops when he has had enough," 

 and told him that I had had enough for the 

 day. 



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