This week’s 100 Word Challenge is inspired by Charles Darwin’s amazing adventures aboard HMS Beagle. Will you write a diary entry from Mr Darwin? A description of the extraordinary iguanas on the Galapagos? An explanation of the evidence he uncovered on his voyage?
I can’t wait to read them all! Miss T x
Today is a very important day. I am boarding the HMS beagle to sail around the world under supervision of Captain Fitzgerald. I am extremely excited but there is a pang of guilt for I am doing this without my fathers permission.
Day 1
The crew seems friendly but it can get quite rowdy due to are close quarters living space, even though the captains room takes up almost half the ship. Anyway, it is dinner time, good bye.
Day 2
We have officially lost sight of land. It is quite an eerie felling because if something goes wrong, we would have to survive by ourselves
I had to leave my dad to go on this trip, I had to do this for my freedom but also my future. I mean this has got to be the most exciting thing of my life, sailing away to my future. I climb aboard the ship and realise that there are quite a few people on this ship. Our crew can make connection and go to the places no one else has gone. This will be the one and only chance to show my father that I’m good enough for him. I need to do this, for me.
Standing proudly on the deck
Crooked back and twisted neck
Shouting, “Hooray!” With pleasure and joy
Captain says, “Hop on young boy.”
Sailing beyond, further then ever
No come had come here no, no never
Sitting patiently, feeling sea sick
Hoping that this ship will go quick
Finding lands and searching eagerly
People finding things so easily
Bones, fossils new discoveries
Friends’ made and amazing memories
Getting off board, hugging families and a friend
We could have just gone longer, and maybe extend
Hearts beating fast, minds rushing around and around
Mothers thinking that we were lost but now found.
Today was one of the best days of my life. I managed to get on the HMS beagle despite my dad being all annoying and saying I couldn’t. And now, I asm on the voyage going to a land where no humans have ever been before.
Yesterday was so amazing, I forgot to write in my diary. It all started when our land spotter (Daniel) shouted “Land ahoy!” We all helped to turn the boat towards land and help dock it. I went straight away on to the island which we named the Galapagos islands and I found the most amazing creature. I looked almost the same as the iguanas we saw in the rain forest of the other new country yet it was black and a bit different. This was what started my theory.
Sorry a bit over 100
Journal, after many delays we have finally set off on the HMS Beagle! The day is Tuesday 27th of December, 1831. We have headed out with a crew of 73 men, clear skies and good wind. The only problem is, I have already been seasick twice! “That’s not good enough” I tell myself, but honestly, I can’t stop it.
1832 January 6th. Today the ship arrived at the port of Santa Cruz, Tenerife Island. To my dismay, we were prevented from going ashore due to cholera outbreak in England. I was truly devastated at missing the island of my dreams.
The voyage of discovery
Standing on the deck of the HMS Beagle, feeling the fresh sea air on my face as I sail into my own future. Fitzroy comes up to me and asks how I’m doing. I say “I’m feeling quite sick”. Really sick actually. He says that it’s natural, and “better out than in!”. I don’t understand how he can be so cheerful in this dismal weather. Just my luck that as soon as we leave the safe harbour, it immediately starts raining. As I look to the horizon, I see the start of my voyage of discovery.
“No, no, no!”
The words are still ringing in my head. Father hadn’t wished for me to go on this dangerous journey, but for the first time in my life, I had disobeyed him. The ship is a jolly place to be and is distracting me from the wrong doing that I have done. But at night it comes back to haunt me. Captain Fitzgerald hears me stirring and tells me relentlessly everyday to block my father out of my mind. But how can you do that when you have loved him all your life. These thoughts are puzzling me, but I must sleep now. Goodnight….I hope.
Dear diary ,
My stomach is churning , my brain is tangled up. You see my fathers a doctor and his dream is for me to follow in his foot steps , however my fear of blood sort of deprives me from being any good one . When I got the offer to follow my dream and travel on the HMS beagle , well that kind of opportunity is pretty hard to put down. So here I am now travelling through the beautiful ocean . Yes my father is disappointed in me , but why can’t he let his beloved son follow his true passion?
Yesterday was the most interesting day of my life, it all started when I was diving for my dinner and I felt a ripple in the water; I quickly swam up to the surface to see what was happening. All my fellow iguanas rose out of the water to see what was disturbing our dinner time as well. An enormous, brown sea creature swam towards us; it had giants riding on its back! They were roaring and whooping at the sight of us, or at least, I thought they were. Now none of them pay attention to us, except one.
I was on a boat, a big boat. It wasn’t a very big boat, because then it would have been an oversized boat. I saw an island in the distance with lush green vegetation; so green it looked like emerald sprouting out of the fresh soil. When I first took a step on this strange island it felt soft, like clouds engulfing my bare feet. Tall trees loomed over me, as if trying to whisper stories in the soft breeze. Stories abut how this island came to be, how this planet came to be, how this universe came to be…