Tuesday 22 May 2012

A long days sailing

Monday night When we had our tea we went down to Piel Island to check out the castle. We lowered the dinghy and motored down in two groups to the picturesque island. Once there we saw the ruins of Piel castle we decided it was the perfect place to play manhunt we split into two teams and took turns hunting each other we lost quite badly but we still had great fun at nine O’clock we went back and scrubbed the decks. It was boring until Mark accidently poured a bucket load of water on Ian’s head and Aaron threw his brush into the water where we were anchored. We finished the day with a relaxing game of chase the ace; Ammaar lost, as usual. Tuesday We were woken up at six thirty by the instructors who insisted we get up early to get to our destination on time. We disagreed. We had a quick breakfast of cereal and got dressed and went up to the deck. We were sailing by seven. We had to change our destination to Whitehaven as the sea was literally flat, there wasn’t even a ripple. We spent the day alternating between three things, steering, sleeping, and watching the hundreds of wind turbines that passed. We later saw a colony of seals and even a porpoise. We docked at Whitehaven after eight hours sailing. We got a long needed shower and chilled out before eating a beautiful dinner of stir fry pork, overlooking the boats in the harbour.

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