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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9615830" data-attributes="member: 11760">The voyage toward Rum Cay is slow. The raft floats, but leaks, and with its single mast, it's hard to keep aimed in the precise direction wanted by the castaways.But just after noon, the north shore of the island is close enough to make out, although still too far to swim to. It's about 10 miles long, with white beaches and rolling hills largely covered in trees. Some sea caves are visible on the western edge of the north shore."Port Nelson is on the far shore," Scaggs says, pointing at the trickle of smoke rising over the trees."I'm going to stay here and be a fisherman," Knives says, miserably clutching his aching leg stump.((OK, so several obvious choices: Land now and hike across the island, land and check out the sea caves, sail around the island to Port Nelson by taking either an east or west path around the coast.))</blockquote>