One day,Mama and Caroline came back to the island on a boat after Carolines singing lesson.

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For days I had dreamed about a huge, white boat floating on a vast body of water, but when my mother took me down to the levee on the day of leaving, I saw a tiny, dirty boat that was not at all like the boat I had imagined.

那些天我总是幻想着一艘,巨大的白船徜徉在宽阔的河上，但当出发那天,妈妈将我带到岸边时，我只看到一只又小又脏的船,完全不是我想的那样，“

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Well, I tell you what, Gilligan. The day that you area shrimp boat captain, I will come and beyour first mate.

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But, even if China had heavy-crude refining capacity--which it doesn't--it wouldn't make economic sense to trade the four-day boat trip to Houston for a 40-day ride across the Pacific.

FORBES: Hugo's Folly

CHEF'S NOTE: This is an excellent dish to make when cod from local fishermen is available (day-boat cod).

NPR: Recipes: 'A Master Class'

Each summer day a boat carries curious visitors from the island's capital to a nearby port, from where a bus winds them up a paved road to Olymbos.

BBC: The lost world of Olymbos