<div align="center">(http://www.fireondarkwater.com/images/boat.jpg)</div><br/>The Ships Captain quickly ordered the Longboats over the side. Two sailors jumped into each to man the oars and hold them steady against the side of the larger ship, though the calm waters of the bay barely made them rise up and down. Provisions were loaded into one of the boats along with an extra two sailors to help manage it as they started for shore. The boat contained some of the ships food supply, along with canvas to make tents out of once they arrived at the ruins.<br/><br/>The second long boat was for the 'land lubbers', as the Captain put it. Once everyone had loaded into the Longboat, it pushed off from the side of the ship and started to cross the bay to shore. It was a short journey, perhaps 5 - 10 minutes, and the going was easy, the Sailors barely breaking into a sweat. The beach was a gentle slope as well, allowing the longboat to ride up a ways into the soft sand, allowing those to disembark onto dry land with out getting their feet wet.<br/><br/>The gentle slope of the beach started to rise more sharply where the treeline started, though the trees here were thin and sparse, leading up the hill to the rock outcropping where the ruins were. It would take about 10 minutes to walk up to the ruins from the beach and the strip of land was quite narrow, perhaps 200 yards across before it entered the water once more. The further from the ruins you walked, however, the slope became more gentle, the land spreading out as the peninsula ended on the mainland.