Tomorrow marks the end of Drew's voyage on the Young Endeavour. By all accounts it's been a fantastic sail with plenty of fun thrown in. We've followed the daily Captain's Log and the activities sound very similar to Meg's voyage when she sailed from Sydney to Brisbane when she was 16 (it was where she learnt to cook banana cake). They've visited pristine beaches, swum, snorkelled, cooked, cleaned, climbed the rigging, tied knots, turned the machines off and sailed under full sail, taken command of the ship for a full day and learned what it means to really be part of and work as a team. Drew now has himself another extended family to go with his Canadian and Antarctic Families.
He made a hasty phone call using the ship's phone tonight, asking me about his flight details for tomorrow. I reminded him that I packed the paperwork in the outer pocket of his backpack - and I specifically remember telling him several times that it was in there. Jeez, boys! He sounded really happy and there was lots of laughter in the background when he said, "Oh, you packed them?!". He rang off with, "I love you Mum".
We're taking his gear back to College tomorrow afternoon and will pick him up from the airport in Brisbane tomorrow night, take him for dinner and deliver him back to Uni, ready to hit the ground running for week 2 of semester (I hope).
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