Captain Jack Sparrow and the Curse of the White Pearl

"Wipe my glasses", shouted Jack.

It was raining hard, accompanied with lashes of wind. Tiny drops of water were pinching like pins on face. The crew of the boat were not sure if they will see the shore again. Suddenly, the only lady crew in the boat shouted, "light... I can see a light". The boat was almost a mile from there. Captain started steering the boat towards it.


Saturday, 25th August, 2007
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It was just another cloudy day. We (my BIL, sis and myself) started for Kinzua Dam from Pittsburgh at around 10AM following route 79 and 6. Route 6 is the scenic drive of Pittsburgh. Fall ornates the trees with all colors making the road beautiful. However, it is not fall yet, but we could see the touch of fall colors in some trees. We reached the dam at around 1:00. We spent some time in the reservoir beach, which is an artificial one. Then we rented a boat from the marina for two hours. It was a small boat which could accommodate 5 people and there were only three of us. We took turns driving the boat. My BIL wanted to project the image of "Bond, James Bond" and took turns with high speed. No, nothing bad happened ... :)

Anyways, we could see a black disc covering the sky over us. It looked just like the 'Independence Day' scene when the UFO lands. The sunbeams and shade made beautiful scene which we captured in our camera. Suddenly, we could see some white clouds coming over the lake from the right side... We had never seen anything like that. Before we could start taking photo of that nice scene, we realized that it was not cloud; It was rain! Soon our boat was stormed with waves. My sister shouts, "put the camera in that box below the seat", and my BIL says "forget the camera, it is least important now! Can you please wipe my glasses?". We could hardly see things at 10 feet distance and the rain was so hard that as if someone was pinching all over the face. The boat was being rocked so vigorously that we thought that this is it... we won't be able to see the shore with the boat. Then, my sister shouts, "light ...". And there was a light! It was a light from the bridge over the reservoir. We started driving the boat towards that light and finally we could see the place from where we had rented the boat. When we reached there, we did not find the lady who was working there. One window of that place was blown away by the wind. We felt lucky that nothing bad happened, but it made our day. Without the rain and storm, it would not have been so exciting and interesting. :)

I could not capture the photos of the rain and storm, but the Dam pictures are here