Tonight we saw smugglers jack their speedboat up on 'our beach'. I heard a helicopter hovering low along the shoreline to my right and I looked out of our window (which looks out on the beach) and saw it spotlighting a speedboat in t
he water-this happened right after dark. [Earlier, a Gib friend of ours, Tristan, was explaining that the Spanish are smuggling alcohol and cigarettes out of Gib and selling them to the Spaniards because they are not taxed in Gib and cheap. (Long story)].
The helicopter followed the speedboat along our shoreline and it started accelerating into a very high-pitched whining engine and as the boat raced past in the bay --- there were my children standing in the surf as it all unfolded(yes, our three children were the last ones on the beach---can you tell they are from land-locked Colorado or what?). I saw one of the men in the boat turn to look at them and I swear I heard them yell something at our children. Doe, it turns out, tells me that she was yelling at THEM, following Tristan's advice and yelling at Spanish boats to get away from the bays. A British neighbor who was on the second floor next to ours cried out "are those your children? Tell them they need to RUN INSIDE!" and I stood there in shock like, wow is this really happening right now? and then to make up for the fact that my kids were out on the beach after dark and just got ID'd by a boatful of smugglers....started screaming.... like a naked woman burning in the fires of Hell. "DOE! RUN! RUNNN!"...the three of them turned and ran back to our apartment. As they were running- the speedboat, which was painted black, gunned its engine and rammed itself 30 ft onto the beach and in crazy precision 10-12 people dressed completely in black poured off the boat and ran. 30 minutes later we walked down to the beach to investigate the boat (our landlord Jinson manages port of entry and we saw him walk down there). So yes. We were some of those stupid Americano turistas who had to get the perfect shot.
This was no 'cigarette smuggling boat"... It was a pretty slick-looking low-profile fairly new speedboat painted completely black. It was probably NOT smuggling cigarettes.
The helicopter followed the speedboat along our shoreline and it started accelerating into a very high-pitched whining engine and as the boat raced past in the bay --- there were my children standing in the surf as it all unfolded(yes, our three children were the last ones on the beach---can you tell they are from land-locked Colorado or what?). I saw one of the men in the boat turn to look at them and I swear I heard them yell something at our children. Doe, it turns out, tells me that she was yelling at THEM, following Tristan's advice and yelling at Spanish boats to get away from the bays. A British neighbor who was on the second floor next to ours cried out "are those your children? Tell them they need to RUN INSIDE!" and I stood there in shock like, wow is this really happening right now? and then to make up for the fact that my kids were out on the beach after dark and just got ID'd by a boatful of smugglers....started screaming.... like a naked woman burning in the fires of Hell. "DOE! RUN! RUNNN!"...the three of them turned and ran back to our apartment. As they were running- the speedboat, which was painted black, gunned its engine and rammed itself 30 ft onto the beach and in crazy precision 10-12 people dressed completely in black poured off the boat and ran. 30 minutes later we walked down to the beach to investigate the boat (our landlord Jinson manages port of entry and we saw him walk down there). So yes. We were some of those stupid Americano turistas who had to get the perfect shot.
This was no 'cigarette smuggling boat"... It was a pretty slick-looking low-profile fairly new speedboat painted completely black. It was probably NOT smuggling cigarettes.
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| One view of das boot....note the reflective vest one of the police is wearing...looked like something out of Tron ;) |
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| You can see the seats better in this shot... |
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