The woman looks more like Miami Beach than Black Bayou. I keep my rifle pointed in the general direction of the lady, but I say, "What brings a lovely lady, like you, to Black Bayou?"

The lady looks back at me and asks, "Is this how you greet visitors to your swamp?"

I choose my words carefully, "The State of Florida has a lot of swamps. The swamps are mostly hot, steamy places, with danger lurking. You look more like Miami Beach than Black Bayou. Which leaves me with the question of why are you here?"

The woman then answers me, with a slight accent, "I wanted to avoid the usual tourist venues."

I sigh, "Your clothing looks high tech. You have a couple of duffel bags, with what I presume is your name, in an alphabet that I have never seen before. I would guess that makes you military, not USA military. That makes you dangerous."

The woman says, "I'm not USA military. I seek an item that I suspect is under the water, near your house."

I ask the lady, "What sort of item?"

The lady says, "It's a military item. A metallic object of some value to me and of no value to you."

I lecture, "If you do find some sort of mysterious object, you then have to get it past the State of Florida boys. The State of Florida boys want to seize anything that they think might be of value. The laws in the State if Florida make anything found in the waters of Florida, the property of the people of Florida. Even if the item that you seek is of no value to the State of Florida, there will be a hearing. Maybe more than one hearing, and any number of questions. I suspect that you don't want to answer questions."

The lady says, "They would even search my pirogue?"

I laugh, "They searched my pirogue, but found only fish and some tools."

The lady asks, "Are the State of Florida boys searching for anything in particular?"

I lecture, "A long time ago, the Spanish looted all the gold, jewels and anything else of value from the Amerinds then set sail for Spain. A lot of treasure ships were lost off Florida, to storms, ship wrecks, even pirates. The State of Florida wants the treasure."

The woman says, "Do you think that it's impossible that I could get what I want out of here, because of the State of Florida people?"

I lecture, "There are a number of steps that need to be taken. If you are not prepared, you will get caught by the State of Florida people."

The woman says, "It seems that I need to talk to you."

I laugh, "If you want to get what you want out of here, you need to talk to me first."

The woman asks, "Where do I leave my pirogue?"

I tell the woman, "Paddle over here."

The woman paddles over to my rock.

I lift the front of the pirogue and set it on the rock."

The woman gets out of the piriogue and says, "You're really strong."

I say, "It comes in handy some times, Come into the house and we can talk."

We go into my house. I have the air conditioning working and it's cool in the house, at least cool compared to outside.

I get the lady settled in, with a glass of wine.

The lady lectures me, "If you have the money to set up a house, like this, in the middle of a swamp,, you're obviously looking for something very valuable. It's well known that there were a lot of Spanish treasure ships lost in Florida waters. Let's just assume that you found some Spanish treasure and you are figuring how to get the treasure out of here, without it getting seized by the State of Florida. I'm not after Spanish treasure, but I need to get something out of here, with no inspection by the State of Florida."

I look at the lady and lecture back, "Spanish treasure came off of a Spanish treasure ship, back when. What did what you're looking for come off of?"

The lady looks at me for a bit and then says, "An aircraft."

I lecture, "The commercial airlines don't fly over this area. There is nothing that would just fall off a light plane that would be big enough and valuable enough to bring you here. That leaves a military aircraft.