A tour of Brimble by Ella and Jack (03.10.08)

This video was made by us, Ella and Jack when we were in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. We thought you would all like to see our boat and home for the year.

We chose the music at the beginning. The island you can see is called Porto Santo, which is in the middle of the Atlantic and is where we are now.

We have just arrivedanto in Porto Santo in the Atlantic Ocean after 5 days sail from Lisbon.

The sail was quite wavy but fun. We both felt sick for the first day when it was most rough. The boat was rolling and the waves were very high. I (Jack) was sick, on deck, below deck over the side and in the washing up bowl, Ella was better and was only sick once. After the first day we felt fantastic and Jack was only sick once because of too much Coca Cola.

We both did nightwatches and star gazing. The first nightwatch we read about Cassiopea, The Great Bear, The little Bear, Polaris the North Star and the Northern Cross and saw all of them. Have you ever seen the big 'w' in the sky at night ... that's Cassiopea. Your mums might know and show you. Cassiopea was the beautiful queen of Ethiopea but she boasted about it and was punished by the gods who made her sacrifice her daughter Andromeda to the sea gods who would eat her. But Perseus saved her on his horse Pegasus and Andromeda and Perseus fell in love. The gods were still sad so they put Cassiopea in the sky where she would never be allowed to set. We learnt lots more stories.

It felt really amazing when we saw land for the first time in 5 days. Ella spotted the islands first which are very pointed and high. I (Ella) shouted ... 'land ahoy' and Daddy shouted 'where so' .... and I shouted 'fine on the starboard bow' and Daddy shouted 'friend or foe' and I shouted 'foe ...' so Daddy shouted 'sound battle stations' and we all did a drum roll; it was excellent.

We are now in Porto Santo

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