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Today at about half past ten we set sail to an anchorage in Porto Brandinchi it took about forty minutes to sail out of the Golfo we where in. Before we put up our sails we filled up with fuel, I was on fuel watch, when we had filled the boat up with fuel we got some more fuel for the dingy engine. When we had left the town quay and after we had filled up with fuel we put up the main and the genoa, when we had put the main and genoa up Daddy then began to make some water with the water-maker. Soon after we had filled up some water containers up with water Mummy spotted two different types of bird, we looked these bird up with our bird book, the bird book told us that the birds we spotted where Shags and Manx shear waters. We next took the genoa in and we then started to motor with the main up. After lunch we spotted a giant whole in a cliff!! The cliff was part of the NATO Naval base, through the hole in the cliff you could see a green field that was full of wild plants. After we had spotted this strange hole we put the genoa up, the boat that was behind us he put up his big blue, he soon lost control of his colourful big blue. Whilst the boat behind us was losing control of their big blue we put one sail on each side of the boat (Goose winging). After about another hour we arrived at the anchorage we wanted to get to, when we had tidied up and when we had made the boat all ship shape we spotted a White beach!! As it was about twenty five degrees we put on our wet suits and we packed all our beach things and we then went to the White beach.

 

The first thing that Harry, Catrin and I did when we arrived at the beach was to try to catch the tiny fish that lived near the shore, after about twenty two attempts I caught a tiny green fish!! We put him in a bucket and we then tried to catch some other small fish but we sadly failed at that. So Catrin played in her sand car whilst Daddy, Harry and I all played French cricket. Daddy kept on hitting the ball into the sea and Harry and I kept on racing to get the ball. When Harry and I got bored of  the game of French cricket Harry and I went snorkelling in the sea. When it was time to go back to the boat we washed all the toys in the sea and we then got into the dingy and we motored back to the boat.

 

When we got back to the boat I got into the sea and I then rinsed all the sand of me with warm water that came from a plastic hose. After we had changed back into our clothes we had our tea and we then watched a DVD and we then went to bed.

 

We have also attached some pictures to show the rocks that are often unmarked (marked on the chart), not much fun at night!!!

 

 

Written by Katie