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“It just doesn’t add up Is Bondaruk a wine collector? A Napo leonophile, maybe?”

“I don’t know We’ll check”

She shook her head, frustrated After a few moments of silence, she asked, “So where do we start?”

“We have to ht about the Goat’s Head being a landmark; and second, that Boehm and his team would have chosen the most uninhabited part of the island to set up shop This coastline certainly fits the bill At first light, we pile our gear into the dinghy—”

“Not the plane?”

“Don’t think so Boehe point would have been frooat’s head could look like a duck’s foot, or a donkey’s ear, or nothing at all”

“Good point Erosion’s going to be a problee a lot”

“True”

The Baha paradise, Saeneral types of cave systems: blue holes, which came in both the open ocean and inshore variety and were essentially great tubes plunging hundreds of feet into the ocean or an island’s rock strata; fracture-guided caves, which followed the natural fissures in the bedrock; solutional caves, which for withliarden-variety sea caves, for surf While these systems rarely went any deeper than a hundred feet, they were also usually spacious and offered sheltered underwater entrances—precisely what onefor a spot to hide a mini submarine

“You missed one,” Remi said “An assumption, I mean”

“Which is?”

“That all this isn’t just a goose chase—or to be exact, a wild Molch hunt”

They woke at dawn, had a breakfast of wild grape, fig, and pigeon plu ithin a hundred yards of the hut, then piled their gear into the inflatable dinghy and set out The trollingto help them set any speed records, but it was fuel efficient and powerful enough to get through the reef line and to navigate the inshore tides By the ti north along the coast, parallel to the reef line The water was a crystalline turquoise, so clear they could see rainbow-hued fish ski the white sand bottom twenty feet below

As Sa as close to the shore as possible, which ranged from fifty to one hundred yards, Reh her binoculars and taking shots with her digital SLR camera Occasionally she would call for Sam to come about and make a repeat pass of a rock formation as she tilted her head and squinted her eyes and tookhim the okay to proceed

The hours and the coastline slipped by until around noon they found the the island’s headland and Junkanoo Rock; beyond that, on the northern shoreline, lay Port Boyd and the island’s hy around and they headed south