13/06/2015

 

 

As soon as we had eaten our breakfast we said bye to Britican (the boat next door to us), I hoped that we would meet up in Greece as we are going to Greece soon and today they are going to Greece, it will take them two days. When Britican had left and when we had finished our homework Daddy went to pick his friend Chris and his daughter, Gaye. Whilst Daddy motored to the beach in the dingy with Catrin Harry, Mummy and I cleaned the boat. Half an hour later Daddy came back with Chris, Gaye, Catrin and shopping, we unpacked the pastries and the bread which Catrin and Daddy brought and we also unpacked the village grown oranges and lemons which Chris and Gaye had brought. When everyone was on board we snacked on pastries, they where really good.

 

Once we had eaten our snacks we decided to go on a small sail into the cool breeze and out of the scorching sun. Daddy pulled the anchor up using the the windlass and we motored out of the bay, Gaye showed us photos of a house which Chris had built, she also showed us pictures of their house in Sicily. Whilst we where motoring we saw a shoal of about ten dolphins we motored over to them and they came to the boat, we all watched them from the front of the boat. Gaye was amazed, she really liked the dolphins, whilst we where looking at the dolphins a swordfish jumped out of the water. The dolphins came to the boat twice, they didn’t stay for long though.

 

After our lunch we tried some of the oranges that Chris and Gaye had picked from there friend’s house, they where really juicy and tasty. They had also brought some lemons we didn’t eat them though. Daddy spotted a fin and tail fin moving in the water, we all thought it was a sunfish at first then we realised it was a big fish like a shark. When we arrived back at the anchorage we anchored next to the marina so we wouldn’t get the bad swell that is coming. As soon as we had anchored two men came over with the dog Rosie and whiley, they told us that they had organised a trip for us to go up Mount Etna with a driver and a guide. We were told that we where going to be picked up in a dingy and dropped of with our guide and driver, they would take us on a tour round Mount Etna tomorrow. We were also told that the fish which we thought was a shark was actually the Sicilian Marlin! We soon dropped Chris and Gaye of and we then wondered in to town. We brought some more bread, salami, cheese and some pastries.

 

When we got back to the boat we had our tea and we then watched the jet skiers fall of their jet skis it was really funny especially when two people fell in! We soon climbed into our cabins and we went straight to bed because we were up early this morning.

 

 

Written by Katie