A TRIP TO THE COAST GUARD BOAT.

  On Thursday, the school went to see a coast guard boat. As we were walking down everyone was talking about what we were going to see. As we got to the snack bar pier everyone thought we were going to look at a boat there. The boat was at the West Pier. When we got to Lochaline Hotel the boat came into view, it looked tiny. We walked down to the gate and then we got on the boat. The gang way was really high up from the water. We had to walk up some very steep steps. At the top of the steps was the control room it was huge. We got to push all the buttons and sit on the big seats. Then we went out side and the view was lovely. We were going to be a bit late in coming back to school for the little ones so we had to come off the boat. We had our pictures taken for the Oban Times.              Kerry

The Statesman

  As we were walking down everyone felt excited. We were all talking. When we got closer we saw the boat.  It looked quite small but when we got closer and closer it looked as if it was growing like a tree but ten times faster. We went over the gangway it was really scary walking over the water onto the boat.  There were loads of stairs to climb up, but it was worth it because there was such a good view. It was amazing to see so much from there. There were so many buttons and levers and we were allowed to sit where you steer. It was fun pretending to be the captain. When we went outside it was even more scary because it was much higher than the gangway . Then we went down had our photo taken and went back to school . 

The Coastguard Boat

Yesterday afternoon Mrs Russell told us to line up. I thought to

myself where are we going? Until we started   walking down the road heading for the hotel. On the way down everybody was really excited. When we got to the hotel everyone could see the boat. Look at that it is cool. The school was allowed to go on to the boat we all went into the control room I got to turn the rudder. After we all had a go we came off the boat and got our photo taken the man said that he would try and get our photo in the Oban Times.

STATESMAN

I was having a really good day yesterday but when I went home at lunch time it got even better because my dad told me that the school was going down to the West Pier to see a coastguard boat. On the walk down to the West Pier Craig kept on falling behind to eat brambles! When we got there I thought that the boat was brand new because the sun was shining on it so heavily. On the bridge the captain told us that she was 25 years old. As we got off the gangway Mrs Lindsay, Mrs Russell and Alasdair took pictures of us in front of the boat.

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