The crew parade was today. Here's a first hand account of it from Kirsteen.

"Well the crew parade was very good we got to see the prince who was handing out the prizes to the various ships. As per usual we all got very wet, as we march along most of the crew members from the various ships throw water bombs at each other and have water fights which is quite funny but very wet also. The atmosphere at the parade was fantastic occasionally we were all getting down to do one big mexican wave which looked pretty impressive.

Sarah says,"My horn was fantastic!!!"

ben says "The parade was a good laugh, i got a water balloon in the face which was cool".

eilidh says "we had one of the biggest flagpoles in the entire parade and I had to carry it all the way but it was fun."

sean says"alba ventura" didnt have any of their own waterbombs so they stole ours!then they threw them back at us !does that sound fair to you?!Shabab Oman totally deserved to win the Cutty Sark trophy they are the most fun crew of the lot,even although none of them will give me a hat!

We will be heading for home tomorrow via Aberdeen and Orkney so we will be out of internet contact for a while. We arrive back in Lerwick in the early hours of Sat.11th and leave again the next day for Norway with a group from the Scalloway Youth Club. It's all go! We'll get some more about the trip to Aberdeen written up on the way across and uploaded when we reach Shetland.