Wednesday 12th April: 1723: 1:10pm
Calmly, the ship was leaving the safety of the town and entering the wildness of the deep blue ocean. I could tell the crew had gotten worried like I was, but we all tried to hide that feeling and started singing songs to cover them up.
We was actually quite lucky since the waves and the weather was really calm. The sun was out and the sky was a lovely warm blue colour. The water ran swiftly below the ship and the seagulls was screeching calmly and flying around the ship and flying over to the beloved town we left behind.
Our journey has started, there's no turning back now, there is now only forward. We will continue Marcus' adventure and we will make him proud. He always cared about us and looked after us and thought of us first, so this is us repaying him and going on the adventure, even though we can't see him we know he is still with us, in our hearts.
I sighed as I remembered him and how he always managed to cheer everybody up when times where tough. I knew I wouldn't be able to concentrate so I gave the wheel to the first mate, who was a tall man, with lustrous blonde hair, and sky blue eyes. He was called Robert and he knew how to control a ship, he can drive extremely well and to be honest I'm shocked how Marcus chose me to be captain, because in my opinion he was way better at driving.
After he got hold of the wheel I walked into the captains cabin and sat myself down at the table and pulled out the map and unfolded it onto the round, dark wooden table. I read the map and ran my finger from London to Antarctica. It was South. I knew that the weather would probably get colder and more dangerous the closer we got. We all knew that we would probably get stuck in a storm and that's probably why the people back in the town called this a suicide mission, but we are 90% positive we won't die since we have all the gear and equipment we need. We have a lot of food and warm clothing.