Katie's blog

We have travelled through France, Spain and Portugal to get to the Canary Islands and now we are on our way home, We have just finished our seven day trip from Arrecife to Aveiro! 

On the first day we saw a Portuguese Man Of War and three pods of Dolphins, on the second day we saw a turtle and seven pods of Dolphins, on the third day it was my Birthday and in the morning a big pod of Dolphins circled the boat for about twenty minutes before heading off into the sunrise, the sun was bright and there was some dark clouds just above the horizon and up in the sky there were big patches of light blue.

  

 At lunch time we had coke and even shared a big packet of crisps out! We had just finished when mum pointed out a brown turtle passing by. On day four we saw a shark! Reuben was so excited he wouldn’t stop talking about it all afternoon. 

On day five we saw a turtle and two pods of Dolphins and we even had a rain shower! We were about twenty miles of shore when the phones picked up the signal and started to work again. one day  we had the fishing line out and even swapped the lure three times, but guess what we got – nothing! 

We made bread one morning and left it to rise in the sun while we did the mid-day fix, mum won and chose crisps and then we had lunch. The bread was really nice and probably the best we have made so far, we even shared a can of coke each! After lunch Reuben went down below to watch a film wile Mum wrote the blog and me and Dad kept a look out for crab pots and Dolphins. There were a big flock of birds in front but as we went by there was a fin in the water and then a Sunfish bobbed out! As we watched we noticed the Portuguese Swimming Crabs all around us, they were obviously scared because they were kicking like mad at the sight of our boat heading  towards them! Just before tea we pulled the fishing line in and put the lure away.

After tea I had five minute go on the swing hanging from the main before it was Reuben’s turn, when he went to bed. I sat up with Dad on watch till half ten, then went to bed myself! 

The next day we finished the bread we had made the day before and then after lunch Reuben went down stairs to watch another film, at half past six we finally got anchored up in the anchorage so that was the end of our trip! There is a really nice bread shop here but most of the cakes have goowy orange stuff in them!

                            The end!!!