Chapter 14 Summary

"Everybody Out of the Pool"

After Donna Kay leaves the island, Ix-Nay reports a very successful fishing day with red-black calico crabs hatching, a favorite food for permit.

Bucky offers Tully his Jeep so that he can drive up to Cancun for a few days. Tully runs into Sammy Raye on the dock. Sammy Raye tells Tully that Donna Kay did believe his story and that her leaving was the best thing for both of them. After a quick nap, Tully decides that a trip sounds like a good idea, but he doesn't think the Jeep will make it to Cancun; he decides to go to Tulum.

On the road, he drives through a puddle, which turns out to be an enormous pothole. Suddenly he's in waist-high water and the Jeep is stuck. Chino, a local fisherman, drives by and helps Tully get...