Days on the Caravel

By deppeabi
  • Sep 20, 1519

    The voyage begins

    The voyage begins
    Five ships and about 280 other crew members begin the voyage that will last months. Our goal is to sail around the world, exploring new things. Our captain is Megellan, honestly I am not a fan of him, as many others.
  • Mar 31, 1520

    Puerto San Julian

    Puerto San Julian
    All five ships arrive at our first port: Puerto San Julian. In Argentina, South America. We met the native people, they called us giants. All the Spanish captains led a mutiny on Magellan. We stayed in Puerto San Julian for about 6 months, we left on 21 August 1520.
  • Aug 19, 1520

    Togo

    Togo
    Today we visited Togo, Africa. It is West of Guinea. It is known for their many beaches with lots of palm trees. They have lots of strange animals. There are three rivers in Togo that we traveled on today. The Oti River, Mono River, and the Kara River. There may be more but we haven't explored that far yet.
  • Sep 18, 1520

    Liberia

    Liberia
    Today we visited Liberia. There are rainforests everywhere. The people there own other people there, they are called slaves. They make them do their own work, it is terrible. I am very glad we don't have slaves in Spain.
  • Sep 23, 1520

    Guinea

    Guinea
    Today we visited Guinea, Africa. Guinea possess a special type of rock called, bauxite. In Spain we can sell this rock for lots of money. Also, they have iron, gold, and diamonds. We spent the day digging for these special rocks.
  • Sep 24, 1520

    Exploration of Africa

    In Africa we explored many different countries, water ways, and rocks. Magellan had us walk by foot, everywhere we went. We had to do this because it is our only way of transportation besides our boat. We met many locals, at first many of them did not llike us foreigners, but then we grew on them, I guess. We are on our way to our next location on our trip.
  • Nov 21, 1520

    Strait of Megellan

    This is the sea route we used while sailing around the world. It separated mainland South America to the north and Tierra del Fuego to the south. This strait is the most important natural passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is very hard to navigate because of the unpredictable and currents, the passageways are very narrow too. Magellan, my captain, called the Strait of Magellan the "peaceful sea"
  • Apr 27, 1521

    Mactan Island

    Mactan Island
    We have been traveling towards the Mactan Island for about 6 months. And have finally reached the island on April 27, 1521. While we were here Magellan was killed in the Battle of the Mactan. The warriors of Lapu-Lapu overpowered our small Spanish force led by Ferdinand Magellan, and he was killed.
  • May 15, 1522

    Cape of Good Hope

    Cape of Good Hope
    Espinosa, a Spanish captain, leaves the other ships and crews to sail back to Moluccas. Later him and his ship were captured by Portuguese fleet under Antonio de Brito. There is only one ship reamaining, the Victoria.
  • Sep 6, 1522

    Circumnavigation

    The Victoria and 17 other crew members, return to Sanlucar de Barrameda, Spain. We are the first ship and, small, crew to circummnavigate the globe.