A quick run around the tennis courts by Gerald. An hour the following morning. Anything else? With cites, of course.
So what would you have done? Not have been there for the police? That would look good wouldn't it? Also it would have sceptics talking 'oh Gerry wasn't there when the Police arrived, hiding Madeleine's body was he, couldn't be bothered to turn up could he'.
They searched all around 5a where Madeleine could have gone, they searched the beach. They went out the following morning to search again. They no doubt expected the police to be there first thing, so they were there waiting for them, they turned up at 10 o'clock. They went to the station.
Now it's all very well people saying they should have searched more, but in reality, they did what they could, and well within what other parents of missing children have done.
After a day or two without finding her, what do you think the chances of them finding her alive would have been? Who wants the parents of a child to find their child dead?
Maybe you think they should have searched peoples homes for her? Well how could they do that? They would have needed the Police to do that sort of thing.
What happened when Gerry was on the beach talking on his phone? Amaral said 'he wasn't looking for crabs that's for sure.' Now I take that as meaning, he was looking for Madeleine. So did he think Gerry had hidden her on the beach? The beach was searched with dogs, but you can see what sort of things were said when the McCann's were innocently photographed.