Hello again Everyone,
It’s Anchor here writing to you. We had a very exciting time recently in Uruguay. It is one of the smallest countries in South America and is a very nice place. We stopped there for two days before we carried on with our voyage to the Antarctic. We still have a long way to go so it is good for everyone onboard to stop in these new and exciting places and meet new people.
Reckless and Anchor in Uruguay
Whilst we were here another very famous ship came into port and was tied up next to us. This ship was the Queen Elizabeth 2 or QE2 as it gets called for short. The QE2 is what is known as a Cruise Liner, that is a very large ship that people pay to go on holiday on. She was travelling to many of the same places we have been; she has also been to Salvador and after Montevideo is also going to the Falkland Islands. There are a lot of cruise ships in the world but the QE2 is considered the most famous. She is so big that she has to have 1000 people working onboard at any one time, ENDURANCE has only 120 and the QE2 is over 200 metres long.
Over the last week I have been working in the part of the ship we call the Bridge. This is where we drive the ship from and it has lots of very modern equipment that stops us from getting lost. It has been really good working up there as I get to see the sun rise every morning and the sun set in the evening, I also got to see all the different animals we have come close to the ship like dolphins, seals, turtles and a couple of whales.
Blue Whale
Did you know that the largest animal in the world is the blue whale? Blue whales can grow up to 30m long and weigh as much as 25 African elephants! While Blue whales live in the sea, they aren’t fish; they’re mammals. A mammal is an animal this is warm-blooded, which means the temperature of its body is nearly always the same. Mammals also can’t breathe underwater like fish, so whales have to swim up to the surface to take air in. Also, just like you, whales have bellybuttons! Like all mammals, they give birth and nurse live young. I hope to see much more as we head further south, as whales prefer to live in colder water.
I hope you can send me some questions to answer as there is so much to talk about I can’t fit it in my letters. I look forward to hearing from you and I hope you are all being good before Christmas.
Goodbye for now.
Yours Aye,
Anchor.
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