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3/05/2015

 

Today at eight o’clock I climbed upstairs and I said goodbye to Julian and Dave, whilst Harry and Catrin slept in there cabins, soon after we had waved goodbye I went down stairs and I got dressed and I put my life jacket on. When everyone had woken up and got dressed we began to approach the Cagliari Fuel jetty, there was all ready a boat moored up there. Grandad began to talk to the men who where on board this boat they said that the fuel wasn’t working. Whilst we where waiting Grandad drove Zulu round in circles in the open space. After we had had enough of waiting we decided that we wouldn’t go to Sicily today instead we would go tomorrow. We motored out of the massive harbour and we set our course to Villasimius.

 

On the way Daddy made water whilst Grandad and Harry set up the fishing line and the trolling line. We soon decided to put up the main to stop us from rolling over the waves, when we had put the main up I took Catrin downstairs to play. Whilst we where playing Mummy came down and she said they have caught a fish if you want to come a look. We didn’t get upstairs in time to see the fish as it came of the hook, Catrin and I where told that the fish that we had almost caught was a baby swordfish!

 

After all this excitement we arrived, we moored up onto the fuel jetty and we filled up with fuel. I had to tell everyone when the fuel tanks where full, when they where full I had to shout “full!” to let everyone know that we where full of diesel. When we had filled up Daddy radioed the marina office before we untied just in case it took them quite a while to find us a place. We ended up in the same space which we where in last time.

 

After lunch we got out our beach kit and we jumped into our dingy, Mummy drove she didn’t think she could do it but she did it in the end. When we had dingied through the turquoise water we landed on the beach. On the beach the first thing Harry, Catrin and I did was play in the clear sea, I went in deep with Grandad, here I saw giant fish. I went into the water with our my snorkel on instead I only wore my snorkel mask. I dived down to the bottom of the sea to sea the fish clearer, there where millions of fish which where all different shapes and sizes!

 

When we got back to the boat Daddy went to check in and to get a pizza takeaway. When he came back we tucked into our pizzas whilst Grandma and Grandad went out to a fish restaurant.  After we had eaten our pizzas we went to bed early as we had a 21 hour sail in front of us.

 

 

Written by Katie