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Updated: May 11, 2025
"See, that must be Sanibel Island the long green streak off there," says she, tracin' it out with a pink forefinger. "And that is Pine Island Sound, with the Caloos Caloosa " "Now sneeze and you'll get the rest of it," says I. "Caloosahatchee. There!" says she. "What a name to give a river! But isn't it wonderful down here, Torchy?" "Perfectly swell, so far as the scenery goes," says I.
Vee thinks she can see a light 'way up the shore on Sanibel and another off towards the mainland; but the fact remains that here's a whole lot of perfectly good moonlight goin' to waste. "If one of the iron steamboats could only wander down here with a Coney Island mob aboard," says I, "wouldn't they just eat this up?
The river with the long name is the southernmost of three streams which fall into a deep bay full of islets, called Charlotte Harbour. We had nearly reached a mangrove island, called Sanibel, when a squall from the eastward struck the schooner and almost laid her over on her beam-ends.
All you've got to do now is to turn her around, with her nose pointin' yonder," -he waved a hand toward the distant Sanibel Islands that stretch along the coast south of Charlotte Harbor, "and take 'vantage of every puff of wind that you can use for tackin'. Understand?"
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