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Here is my new map with Venezuela included.

The Third Day in Los Roques

After breakfast (Auntie Els: this was toast, scrambled eggs, and pancakes) we boarded the terrible lurching speedboat of doom. They started up the boat and it sped off quickly. I decided to sit at the very front of the boat. It was all rickety-rockety and I was being bounced about a lot, but that didn't matter because I liked it, and anyway I wasn't getting as wet as everyone else was. It was half an hour and eventually I was getting really fed up of the bumping about. We reached the island of Cayo do Agua and I got up and told everyone, 'We're safe! We're still in one piece!'

We got off and the people set up our umbrellas and brought us our chairs and cool box, and I went off snorkelling for a little while. There were all different kinds of fish: small fish, big fish, fry, colourful fish, and white fish. In the afternoon I went to the coral area and did some more snorkelling and I saw a barracuda. It was a little hard to make out but it was long, thin, and full of sharp teeth.

The island had soft sand and there was a sand bar which connected the island we were on to another with a lighthouse on it. The sand bar had waves coming from both sides so there were no dry patches.

On the way back there was more bumping about but still Lucy fell asleep which was a miracle. We made a stop at another remote sand bar once used by sailors so they could scrape the barnacles off the bottoms of their wooden boats, or fix them, called Carenero. 

Now I'm waiting for dinner at the Posada. Dinners are always scrumptious. Last night we had zucchini carpaccio for starters, followed by kingfish pieces with salad and potatoes. It was a bit like fish and chips. For dessert there was a traditional Italian cake called tres leches, which they said means 'three kinds of milk'.

Francisqui Island Notes

Today I woke up feeling happy. Breakfast was tasty. There was ham and cake. After that we went to our room to change, then we went to the speedboat. It took us to another sandy beach with cool shallow water. There were lots of types of fish to see and there was a coral area which was quite interesting, full of weird rocks and big lumps of coral that had wavy patterns. There was a massive swarm of green fish. I wish we could have stayed longer.

Notes From A Small Island

Posada Movida

This charming little parrot lives in a cage outside the posada

Today I arrived in Los Roques in a small plane. It's a bunch of small islands of the coast of Venezuela. There were ten seats on the plane including the pilots. We went to a beach by a motorboat. It was a lot of fun. I went snorkelling. It was nice and warm. I was standing still looking at the fish when they started staring at me like I was a tourist attraction. Afterwards my sister Lucy buried me in sand. We are staying in the Posada Movida. It is nice and cozy. The food is really nice here.