Near drowning

Last week we had a near drowning. An expat from Crucita (across the river) was walking her dogs on the beach. At her urging some kids were throwing sticks into the water for the dogs to fetch. One of the dogs got caught in a rip tide, and was being pulled out to the ocean, Ingeborg jumped in and quickly was also swept up in the rip tide.

Often on busy beach days off duty fishermen take their boats down to the river and take tourists on boat rides. That is why Elvis and Luis were there, they saw Ingeborg and dogs floating out to sea and promptly scooped her and  pup out of the water. They knew she was in bad shape, so high tailed it down to the Navy station who then got the volunteer firemen involved. One of the firemen is a member of the San Clemente San Alejo San Jacinto Facebook and put her picture on the site, as she had no identification,  and he did not know her. 

She was taken to the hospital in Bahia and soon after her picture was posted, her husband and friends from Crucita were notified. She was reuinited with both dogs and is recovering from the ordeal. She was beyond grateful to Elvis and Luis and wanted to find them and thank them. I got on the task, and found them on Facebook in  no time, sent messages, and have been writing to them relaying her thanks and wish for meeting them in person.

Even in paradise the unspeakable can happen, thank goodness we have social media and a great number of wonderful caring people who live here. I know them men will be embarrassed at getting gifts, because they were just being human,  but Ingeborg is just so grateful to be alive. And I am glad I could be involved and help.

So...stay tuned, the adventure continues!