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Old Nov 12, 2013 | 7:15 pm
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Originally Posted by astroflyer

Eventually, I saw them pull off the badly bent propeller and start attempting to forge it anew in a fire on the beach, and that was when I knew we were there for the night (boats can't travel at night). It was a miserable, cramped, cold night on the boat. They ran out of food and clean water. I flagged down a speedboat the next morning and hopped on it with one of my friends. We paid a lot just to get on and avoid a bidding war and 2 other couples managed to get into this. The people on the boat had the nerve to scream repeatedly about getting out tickets from us so that they would get paid for our passage...we did not give them up.
I've heard this story told by a handful of people. Yours was not an isolated experience.
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