Seven
Thursday, April 21
USS Bougainville
Caribbean Sea
Eva had never been on a ship before, and it surprised her that for the next few days they didn’t even see land. She had assumed they would be hugging the coastline, but obviously she had been wrong.
That evening at dinner, Caleb told her that was about to change—that they’d be at the Panama Canal soon. He said there was a line of ships waiting to go through the canal, but that it shouldn’t delay their journey by more than a day.
That gave Eva an idea. “If we do have to wait,” she said, “why don’t we take a day off to let the dolphins swim while we’re still in the Caribbean?”
“That’s a great idea,” said Axel. “We can set up the sound equipment, get in the water with them with our communication masks, and do a full demo for Sarah
