Jessica Watson – sailing around the world

Jessica Watson, a 16 year old girl from the Sunshine Coast has just completed an around the world trip becoming the youngest person ever to sail around the world singlehandedly. Today I watched her triumphant arrival back into Sydney harbour. It was quite impressive to watch. It seemed that hundreds of boats turned out to escort her to the dock in front of the Sydney Opera House with thousands more lining the shores of the harbour and at the opera house itself. As the boat pulled in and she stepped off onto dry land for the first time in seven months a cheer rose up from the crowd. Supported by her father and brother she walked along the pink carpet that had been rolled out for her arrival. The PM and Premier of NSW were there to greet her and there was a big ceremony with speeches about her arrival. Everyone was saying she was a heroine for doing the trip. It as funny for her to turn around and say that she’d have to disagree with the PM on that one. She did not consider herself a hero. She said “you've just got to have a dream believe in it and work hard”. Very true, but I think that having a bit of money also helps you achieve your dream. There is no doubt though that it was an impressive feat. Makes me think that I’d like to do something like that. Maybe I should learn to sail.