Also known as ¨blue eyes¨, for obvious reasons. Carlos was one of the older fishermen at Chalacatepec and I have been meaning to share his story for some time, as it is an impressive feat of survival.
Carlos and two other men were out fishing some years ago when a hurricane blew in unexpectedly in the late afternoon. (This was before the fishermen began to carry cell phones in little thermos to keep them dry.) Their boat was flipped and Carlos found himself swimming for his life in a tumultuous sea. He swam the entire night, tempted to give up a few times, but when he began to sink something inside him would say, ¨No! I want to live!¨ and he would re-surface in that stormy ocean.
He swam for somewhere around 12 hours before managing to reach some rocks- the same point that we would catch waves off of. By that time it was morning the next day. The other two men were never found.
Hi Laura and Griffin,
ReplyDeleteThe photos are terrific!
We enjoy tracking you on Google earth. It would be so fun to hang with you down there. Keep the updates comming. We check for new news everyday.