The Adventures of Joe and Dad
It was a cold and rainy Saturday of the Victorian Long Weekend in March. We set off from Melbourne and onto the M80 motorway towards Geelong. Our objective was to board the pirate ship and fire the pirate’s ship. We took over the ship and went to England. The winds were very light at first and it was the east and south wind.
First of all, we went to see the ship One&All. It was on the other jetty. It will be sailing to Adelaide in a few weeks. Daddy wants to sail on her with them to Adelaide. Here I am next to the ship, One And All. Isn’t it amazing!

Joe is amazed at the One And All
The Pirate ship was called the Enterprize. we sailed from the pier next to the yacht club. Joe helped to haul up the sails with this thick rope. Of course, Joe did most of the work. He is so strong, he could have sailed the pirate ship all on his own. “Actually I could in real life” – Joe was heard to say later on.
We sailed out into the middle of the bay and a sea plane came by wanting to take off, so we gave way to it and it flew off. The ship did not have a wheel but was steered by a wooden tiller. Joe wanted to have a go at the tiller but he was not allowed to because he did not have his pirate’s licence with him.

The tiller of the Enterprize pirate ship
That afternoon we went to Clifton Springs and walked along the beach, looking for shells, dead crabs, fossils and dinosaur bones. We found lots of shells, crabs and the spine bone of a big fish. Joe found the spine bone, in point of actual fact. It was buried in the sand next to a big rock. Next to the beach was a wetlands where all this fresh water seeped out of the cliffs. There was even a stream coming down from the storm water drains.
We walked on lots of cement pillows near the jetties and where the fishing boat ramp was. Joe scared the sea gulls by running towards them and screaming at them. But they came back, anyway. And then he scared them off again. It rained and rained and rained and later on we had chips for dinner. Dad told me a story that night.
The next day we saw these fishermen who caught these big squid. It was an awesome catch. We ventured on towards Portarlington, and then went for a walk along the Point Edwards foreshore, looking for dinosaur bones. All we found was some mud that was going to become mud-stone one day and some sea-grass meadows. Joe says we did actually find some bones but he can’t remember.
We ended up at Queenscliff and watched the ferry coming in from Sorrento. The cars came off the ferry first and then the people walked off who did not have cars. We went up to the top of the observation tower and this is the view of the entrance to Port Phillip Bay.
The end of our amazing adventure saw us at Ocean Groves beach, where we went for a surf. As we left the tide came right up and almost covered the whole beach. That night there was a huge hail storm with thunder and lightning and it rained heavily most of the night. Dad told me some stories during the night. Joe slept while dad drove to Geelong where we had breakfast at Maccas.

































