A little early, perhaps: but as I type the children are having showers and generally preparing themselves for bed. One of the children asked me a few minutes ago what time it was - when I said it was 10 to 9 he almost fell over! Time flies when you're enjoying yourself. . . .
Tomorrow morning we are up early for breakfast at 8:00, followed by a full day's activities on the water. As ever, we will aim to bring you as many pictures and stories about that as we can. In the meantime, sleep well.
This evening, we are doing two different evening ents - crabbing and water polo.
For crabbing, the children have a net on a length of string, which they bait with chicken. They then have to lower the net in, and wait until they think a crab has taken the bait, and then bring it up again. Hopefully there will be a crab in the net.
This involves a lot of concentration, as the pictures below show:
Half the children are playing (don't) drop the bomb - a bomb is on an island surrounded by shark infested water, they have to get it off:
While the other half are honing their archery skills:
Our passage was slightly delayed as we had to let this monster past - 9 containers high above the deck!!
It's a lovely day out in the Solent, and there are many sailing craft out here with us.
We are now approaching Osborne House, Queen Victoria's residence on the Isle of Wight, perched on the headland just before we turn left towards Cowes. This picture also shows a keel boat, very similar to the ones that the children (in groups of 6) will have a chance to sail out here in the Solent at some stage during our visit.
We are now all on the Jenny M, with our luggage stowed away on board. Soon we hall leave for the UKSA at Cowes - the tracker will follow our journey
