| Christmas Letter from Reckless |
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It’s Reckless the bear here,
Writing to you from the very cold South Georgia. South Georgia is an Island near to the Antarctic and is a very special place. We will be here for three weeks as part of our first work period and we’re going to study lots about the place including making detailed charts of the sea bed around the Island so that any other ships coming to the area know how deep it is. I like South Georgia because it is very beautiful. There are lots of snow covered mountains here which look like the ones out of the Lord of the Rings films and lots of different animals and unusual plant life to look at. It’s amazing what plants manage to grow here. There are plants like lichen, which feed on bare rock. The lichens make acids, which dissolve the rock and make it crumble. Then they send out tiny “roots” to suck up the nutrients from the rocks and they use this to make food. Other lichens live on penguin or seal poo left on the rock. Yuck! There are also millions of penguins, which live and nest in South Georgia. They regularly swim out to the ship when we are sailing around the Island and have a good look at us. Penguins are very friendly birds and several of us have been ashore and have been to see them. Penguins can’t fly and are very slow on land, but when they get in the water there are not many things faster than them. They have to be fast in the water to catch the fish that they eat. Even though the water’s bitterly cold, it’s teeming with life.
Everyone onboard is looking forward to Christmas. We haven’t started putting our decorations up yet, but we will be decorating the ship together very soon. Have you got decorations up in your Classroom? There’s also lots planned for Christmas, which I’ll tell you all about in my next letter. Why don’t you write to us in Antarctica and tell us what you all did at Christmas? We’d really look forward to that. Anchor and I have some Christmas joke for you: What does Rudolph want for Christmas? A Sony Sleighstation 2 Who hides in a Cake Shop at Christmas? A mince spy! I hope you all have a Cool Christmas (I know I’m going to in Antarctica!) and I look forward to writing to you all again soon. Yours aye, Reckless.
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