Just days away from her 17th birthday, Jessica Watson is about to arrive at Sydney Harbor, where tens of thousands are expected to welcome her.
One of the most important lessons of our journey was learning that we are, as Socrates put it, “citizen(s) of the world.”
A sixteen-year-old Australian solo circumnavigator rounded Cape Horn this morning, surfing down high seas before 35-knot gusts and waving to the folks back home cheering her
New Year's Eve:
Avery's final college application turned in. check.
Writing group reading done. check.
Before Jessica Watson set off on her round-the-world sail, she and her family faced growing criticism and calls for the state to prevent her departure.
When we left Jessica, she had just crossed the equator and officially become a shellback.
Australian teen circumnavigator Jessica Watson is now a shellback. That's the term we other shellbacks use for the metamorphosis of a polliwog who crosses the equator.
