Island of Children

 

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The turning point for our voyagers comes in bleak winter. As the group scramble up a wet snowy embankment, leaving behind the burning motor on their vessel, they are met by a group of children assiduously studying books on the environmental and ecology. The eldest child steps forward, and in a gesture reminiscent of St Martin sharing his cloak with a half naked beggar, offers her warm jacket to the shipwrecked youth. The emblem on one child¹s hat records that this is the class of 2040. These are the children of the future, the crew's yet to be born grandchildren. In a reversal of the natural order of things, the children offer protection and knowledge to their forbearers.