One Heck Of A Ride

193 A fishing Trip I’ll Never Forget six pounds.) We also caught several other types of hard- fighting gamefish I’d never heard of before this trip. The newspaper article about our trip quoted Jack as saying he returned from Brazil with memories of seeing a huge caiman and freshwater pink dolphins in the river and tapirs on its banks, and a variety of brilliantly colored butterflies, as well as having a wild monkey sit on his lap. He also was reported as saying Sunset on the Rio Negro River The native people put on a show our last night at the lodge. This was our fare well from the amazon queen it was so hot the sunblock on his arms sizzled when there was no cloud cover or rain. It brought tears to my eyes when I read that article again a few years later and saw that he had said, “Bill and I had an absolutely wonderful adventure and experience on this fishing trip that we both will remember the rest of our lives.” Jack Webb died 30 November 2010, just a couple weeks shy of two years after we returned to Lompoc.