The Cruise in the Caribbean

   There was this male engineer, on a cruise ship in the Caribbean for the
first time.  It was wonderful, the experience of his life.  He was being
waited on hand an foot.  But, it did not last.  A Hurricane came up
unexpectedly.  The ship went down almost instantly.

   The man found himself, he knew not how, swept up on the shore of an
island.  There was nothing else anywhere to be seen.  No person, no supplies,
nothing.  The man looked around.  There were some bananas and coconuts, but
that was it.  He was desperate, and forlorn, but decided to make the best of
it.  He decided that he had to make the best of it. 
   So for the next four months he ate bananas, drank coconut juice and
mostly  looked to the sea mightily for a ship to come to his rescue.

    One day, as he was lying on the beech stroking his beard and looking
for a   ship, he spotted movement out of the corner of his eye.  Could it be
true,   was it a ship?  No, from around the corner of the island came this
rowboat.   In it was the most gorgeous woman he had eer seen, or at least seen
in 4   months.  She was tall,  tanned, and her blond hair flowing in the
seabreeze  gave her an almost ethereal being.  She spotted him also as he was
waving and  yelling and screaming to get her attention.  She rowed her boat
towards him.

   In disbelief, he asked, "where did you come from, how did you get
here"? 
   She said, "I rowed from the other side of the island..  I landed on
this  island when my cruise ship sank"  "Amazing", he said, "I didn't know
anyone  else had survived.  How many of you are there?  Where, did you get
the   rowboat?  You must have been really lucky to have a rowboat wash-up
with   you?" 
    "It is only me", she said, "and the rowboat didn't wash up, nothing
else did.  "Well then", said the man, how did you get the rowboat?"
I made  the rowboat out of raw material that I found on the island, replied
the  woman.  The oars were whittled from Gum tree branches,  I wove the
bottom  from Palm branches, and the sides and stern came from a Eucalyptus
tree".

   "But, but, asked the man, what about tools and hardware, how did you
do   that?"  "Oh, no problem, replied the woman, on the south side of the
island   there is a very unusual strata of alluvial rock exposed.  I found
that If I fired it to a certain temperature in my kiln, it melted into
forgeable  ductile iron.  I used that for tools, and used the tools to make the
hardware.  But, enough of that, she said.  Where do you live?"  At this man
was forced to confess that he had been sleeping on the beach.

"Well, let's  row over to my place, she said."  So they both got into the rowboat
and left  for her side of island.

   The woman easily rowed them around to a wharf that led to the
approach to  her place.  She tied up the rowboat with a beautifully woven hemp
rope.
   They walked up a stone walk and around a Palm tree, there stood an
exquisite  bungalow painted in blue and white.  "It's not much, she said, but I
call it  home.  Sit down please, would you like to have a drink?"  "No, said
the man,  one more coconut juice and I will puke."  "It won't be coconut
juice, the  woman replied, I have a still, how about  a Pina Colada do?  Trying
to hide  his continued amazement, the man accepted, and they sat down on her
couch to  talk.

   After a while, and they had exchanged their stories, the woman
asked, "Tell  me, have you always had a beard?"  No, the man replied, I was clean
shaven  all of my life, and even on the cruise ship".  "Well if you would like to
shave, there is a mans razor upstairs in the cabinet in the bathroom."  So,
the man, no longer questioning anything, went upstairs to the bath room.
   There in the cabinet was a razor made from a bone handle, two shells
honed  to a hollow ground edge were fastened on to its end inside of a
swivel  mechanism.  The man shaved, showered and went back down stairs..

   "You look great, said the woman, I think I will go up and slip into
something more comfortable."  So she did. 

   And, the man continued to sip his Pina Colada.  After a short time,
he woman  returned wearing fig leafs strategically positioned and smelling
faintly of  gardenia.

   "Tell me, she asked, we have both been out here for a very long time
with no  companionship."  You know what I mean.  Have you been lonely, is
there  anything that you really miss?  Something that all men and woman
need.   Something that it would be really nice to have right now.

   "Yes there is, the man replied, as he moved closer to the woman
while fixing  a winsome gaze upon her,  tell me: "Do you happen to have an
Internet  connection?"