This be the Bell Tower on Dog Point, it be.
“When we anchored, five of us got into the little skiff,
filling it completely. Any rough water would have swamped us.
Sparky and Tiny rowed us in, competing violently with each other,
which gave a curious twisting course to the boat.”
– John Steinbeck,
Sea of Cortez, p. 261, (1941)
“These fishermen in their swivel fishing chairs
looked comfortable and clean and pink. We had been washing our clothes in salt water, and we felt sticky and salt-crusted; and, being less comfortable and clean than the sportsmen, we built a whole defense of contempt. With no effort at all on their part we had a good deal of dislike for them. It is probable that Sparky and Tiny had a true contempt, uncolored by envy, for they are descended from many generations of fishermen who went out for fish, not splendor. But even they might have liked sitting in a swivel chair holding a rod in one hand and a frosty glass in the other, blaming a poor day on the Democrats, and offering up prayers for good fishing to Calvin Coolidge.”
– John Steinbeck,
Sea of Cortez, p. 238, (1941)