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(whimsical happy music)

♫ Come sail around the world with me

♫ Ride on the waves of the deep blue sea

♫ Float to an island where the days are free

♫ Spend some time with my family

♫ The Swiss Family Robinson

♫ Living in the sun

♫ The Swiss Family Robinson

♫ Every day is fun fun fun

♫ Friends all around me everywhere

♫ Down in the water up in the air

♫ All of them mean a lot to me

♫ But my very best friends are my family

♫ The Swiss Family Robinson

♫ Living in the sun

♫ The Swiss Family Robinson

♫ Every day is fun fun fun

♫ The Swiss Family Robinson

♫ Living in the sun

♫ The Swiss Family Robinson

♫ Every day is fun fun fun

♫ Fun fun fun

♫ Fun fun fun ♫

- [Becca] It's been about two months since Father

and Fritz started working on our ship.

I thought it was going to be done a lot sooner

but Father explained that with only the small

hand tools from the steamer,

building something as large as

a ship would require patience.

They said in the next couple of days,

they should be putting the mast up.

I can't wait to see that.

We're going to be leaving this island very soon!

- How's your side coming along Fritz?

- Well I think I'm going to be finished today.

- Good!

We're about to lose our light,

let's stop until tomorrow.

- Alright.

- [Father] Ready? - [Fritz] Yeah.

- [Father] Push!

(Father and Fritz grunting)

- [Father] There, now the other side.

Let's get the two boughs lined up.

- I'm ready.

(Father and Fritz groaning)

- There, now let's bring the two sterns closer,

push until it's parallel.

(Father and Fritz groaning)

- [Father] More!

(Father groaning) There!

She's ready for the cross beams.

- [Fritz] I think she looks great.

- [Becca] Father and Fritz aren't the only

ones getting ready to leave,

Mother, Jack and myself are in charge of

the provisions for the trip.

That means we all have to get the food ready.

I don't really mind because we haven't

had to study while we're helping Mother.

Although I have a feeling that there will be

just enough room on the ship for school books.

Anyway it sure is exciting to think that we'll

finally be on our way to Australia again

and when we get there I'll have lots

of new friends to play with.

Jack will start school, Fritz will play music, I can't wait!

I think it's snack time!

- You're not supposed to eat those Becca!

- You can have one.

- Oh!

- [Becca] What do you think?

- They're delicious.

- Uh huh.

Oh Mercedes did we forget about you? Here.

- Look, Mercedes thinks they're good too!

- Children please don't eat up all the food for our trip.

- Sorry!

- [Mother] That's alright.

- Mother why are we setting out the food to dry like this?

Why don't we just pick a bunch

right before we get in the boat?

- We'll take some fresh food along too Becca.

Most of the food we'll take along will be dried,

that's because dried food keeps longer.

- I see.

Mercedes, I can't give you anymore of these,

we need to dry them out.

- [Jack] Are those fishes for the boat?

- [Mother] Yes.

- We have to do these just like the fruit?

- That's right, having fish on board

will give us protein to eat.

- We don't need to bring fish,

we can just use the poles Father made.

- We'll certainly bring them along

but the presence of fishing poles does not guarantee fish.

When these have all tried we'll stack them up

and wrap them in palm leaves to keep the water out.

- Oh!

- And we'll have fish.

- Why do you have to keep the water away from the fishes?

- What?

- Oh well because these fishies have to stay very dry.

- [Father] You got it? - [Fritz] Yeah.

- [Father] Let's put it in the middle.

- We'll need to bring a lot

of water won't we? - Yes that's true.

(Father grunting)

We can't last very long without it.

I was figuring that we'd take two barrels

of fresh water along with us,

one loaded in each canoe.

- There.

- I worry that that's not going to be enough.

Maybe we can find out a way to bring some more.

- It's not the space I'm concerned with,

it's the weight.

By the time we get five people

and all the provisions loaded,

we may be pushing the limitations

of this design on the open sea.

- How about three canoes Father?

- I believe a three hull design would be too hard to steer.

- But what are we going to do if we

run out of water in the middle of the ocean?

- Fritz, it's risky.

We all know that but we've got to try.

- I'm just afraid that we won't make it to Australia.

Maybe we ought to stay here on the island.

- We could stay here

and possibly exist for a very long time

but only if we don't encounter anymore

tropical diseases or serious accidents.

Listen Fritz not too long ago we were asked to

go to Australia because they needed more doctors

and we agreed to go as a family

but we didn't make that decision just so we could move away

and live somewhere else.

We made it because people needed our help

and they still do.

Our only other option is waiting.

That would require a ship to pass by.

I'm sure you remember what happened the last time.

- You're right and if we did see a ship on our voyage

voyage we could sail over to it.

- Yes we could, we could end up in Australia after all this.

- I'm sorry I sounded so fearful.

- I understand, let's get back to work.

- Right!

- Mother are we going to bring corn along on our trip?

- Yes we will Becca but that's not

the only grain we'll be bringing along.

The wheat should be ready to be harvested also.

- How are we going to possibly eat them on board the ship?

They're too hard dry.

- We won't try to eat the dry kernels,

we'll have to grind them all up first.

- [Becca] That will give us cornmeal, right Mother?

- Yes it will and from that we can make corn porridge.

- Hey do you think we could make sweet cakes?

- Well I suppose, they'll last for a short while.

- Yay my favorite!

I love eating sweet cake, yum!

- Now Becca I don't want you thinking we'll be eating

the same size meals on this voyage as we do here.

We'll ration our supplies of - [Becca] What?

Food and water while we're sailing.

We will just have to conserve our food Becca,

we don't know how long our journey

is going to end up taking us.

- [Becca] Why don't we know?

- We're not really sure where we are

or exactly the distance to Australia.

- Know what we can do?

If we run out of food we can use

the fishing poles Father made

or maybe Fritz and I could use our bows and arrows,

we could stand at the edge of the boat

and shoot the fish as they swim by.

What do you think of that Jack?

- I don't know.

(Mother laughing)

You are the optimistic one aren't you Becca?

Bows and arrows indeed.

(Mother laughing)

After we get this corn done we'll check on the papaya.

Oh!

- It's raining Mother!

- Quickly children we've got to gather

up all the food we've left out to dry.

You two bring in the fish.

- Alright. - Alright.

- Come on Jack!

- You run too fast Becca!

(Becca screams)

- Jack come help me with this! Oh!

- Hurry up Becca the fishes are getting wet!

- [Becca] I'm untying as fast as I can!

Let's go!

(Becca and Jack exclaim)

Do you have to do that here Brewster?

- Yeah don't do that here Brewster.

- [Becca] This surprise storm stopped everyone's work.

Now we were going to have to start all over again,

with fish and fruit drying.

It sure rains here different here

than it did in Switzerland.

Back home once it started the rain would last for hours,

sometimes days but here it only lasts

for a few minutes then it's dry.

It did rain really hard once before,

that was the night our steamship ran aground

but that was a long time ago,

now it just rains and clears up,

rains and clears up!

- Father the five of us'll never fit in one canoe,

how are we going to decide who sits where?

- You and I will sit in the back of each one,

that way we can pull in the sails.

Then we should keep all the food in one canoe

and Becca in the other.

(Father and Fritz laughing)

- [Becca] What's in the next one Mother?

- There's sugar inside this one.

- Oh what's all over this?

- Besides the banana tree leaves,

I used some of the wax from those

candle berries you brought back.

- What for?

- The wax seals the edges and keeps the moisture out.

It's extremely important to make sure the food

and supplies are kept dry during our entire journey.

- I see. I'm ready for another one.

- This one's salt.

- Why do we have to bring along extra packages of salt?

We'll be traveling over sea water.

- Yes but we won't have any way of using that salt.

Here there just isn't any place on board

the ship to make the salt like we did before.

Remember when we needed to use quite

a large section of the beach last time?

So we have to bring the salt along with us.

- Why don't we boil the salt water?

- We can't because we won't be building any fires.

- Huh? You mean we're going to sail

to Australia without cooking?

- Uh huh your Father said that any

extra space would be used for food

and not for fire wood.

- But I was looking forward to

barbecuing the fish we caught!

- I'm sorry Becca but Father was quite specific about

what things we had room for on board the boat.

- We're not going to have any hot food to eat?

- I think it's time to sew the sail together.

(Becca sighs)

- Next they'll probably be making me paddle!

Father and Fritz are almost done with the ship,

all they have left to build is the mast.

That's the tall post in the middle that the sail goes on

and the sail is what Mother and I are sewing together.

- Becca I want you to be sure that all of

your stitches are sewn tightly together.

- I will.

- Thank you!

- There now hold her steady.

I'm going to try to lift her into place.

- Got it.

- Alright here we go.

(Father groaning) Steady.

(Mother humming)

- I wonder how your Father and Fritz are getting along?

- I hope almost done like us.

- [Father] Good good now let it down slow take it easy.

Steady, there now we have one mast in place.

- [Fritz] I think it looks great!

- [Jack] Wow! (Becca giggling)

- It's ready for the ship!

- And now the ship is ready for her sail.

- I say let's pack everything tonight.

- Let's all get a good night's rest,

we'll test the ship in the morning.

- Alright.

- [Becca] With all the excitement I don't think

any of us are going to get much sleep tonight.

Nobody wanted to sleep late this morning,

in fact I'm not sure I've ever seen the Robinson family

clean up after breakfast so fast!

Everybody was in a great big hurry, even Brewster!

(dog barking)

You can't blame us though,

we finally have a way to get off of this island.

After we test the boat today I want to go fishing.

- Let's see if we have any time for that this afternoon.

- Yes we may end up sailing most of the day.

- [Becca] Alright!

- [Jack] Lookout Brewster we're walking on the bridge.

Get out of the way!

That was a close one!

- [Becca] Oh Jack!

Father said it was turning out to

be a perfect day to go sailing.

The water was calm and there was a slight breeze blowing.

I think everyone was hoping today

would be one of those special days.

The kind that happen every once in awhile,

where nothing goes wrong and everything goes right.

- [Fritz] Here we go.

- [Jack] I want to push too Daddy!

- [Father] Alright Jack you come over here next to me.

- Like this Daddy?

- Uh huh.

- Wait for us Brewster!

(Father and Fritz groaning)

- [Father] Let's aim for that opening on the left.

- [Fritz] Right I see it.

- [Becca] Father decided that he

and Fritz should try out the ship alone

in case it wasn't safe.

So Mother, Jack and myself waited on the reef for them.

- Wish us luck.

- Good luck dear!

- Please hurry back I want my turn.

- Yeah me too I want my turn!

- Are you ready to go Fritz?

- I'm ready.

- [Father] Well then we're off!

- It's a beautiful looking ship isn't it?

- [Mother] Your Father and Fritz have done a wonderful job.

- Maybe we should all wave to them.

- Yes a wave of encouragement, good idea.

- Three cheers for the Robinson ship!

(Becca and Jack exclaiming excitedly)

- Oh look they've let the sail out Mother!

- Yes I see and the mast is holding as well.

- The sail works! - [Becca and Jack] Yay yay!

- We're picking up some good speed.

- Australia here we come!

We may be there before lunchtime!

(Father and Fritz laughing)

- Oh the boat is going away!

- It's alright Jack they're going to come back.

- [Father] This is about as smooth as it could be.

- Uh Father!

- Slacken out that rope a bit.

No that's too much pull it in pull it in!

Now let some out, good.

- My first steering lesson.

- Mine too let's say go back to the reef now.

- It looks like they've learned to control it.

- They're coming to pick us up.

- Take me on the boat!

The boat didn't stop Becca.

- Fritz let some of your rope out and I'll pull mine in.

- [Fritz] Alright!

- You can pull your rope back in now Fritz.

- [Fritz] Father is worked we're

heading straight for the reef. - [Father] Uh huh.

Ahoy! Does anyone want to go sailing?

- [Jack] Yeah take me Daddy!

- [Becca] So the Robinson family went

for a whole day of sailing.

(Becca laughing)

(relaxing calm music)

- Well how many days do you think we

need to finish preparing the food Anna?

- We could be done in about two days.

- Excellent I think everything

else will be completed by then.

- After all this time I find it very hard

to believe we're actually leaving.

- Yes I know I've had the same feeling.

- Believe it or not I think we'll be able to make it.

I've drawn this from memory of the map that the captain

kept referring to before we were shipwrecked.

- I know that's Australia there.

- Where do you think our island is located?

- I'd say our best guess is we're part

of this small group of islands here.

- Ohhhh!

- We're right above Australia.

- That means that all we have to do is sail southward.

- Yes that's exactly what I've been thinking.

- Oh the candles broke!

- The wind seems to of picked up strength.

- We might as well go to bed I'm sure

everybody's tired after today's sailing.

- That's a good idea dear.

- I'm not even tired.

After the candle blew out we all went to bed

but the wind kept stronger.

(boat creaking)

And then it started to rain.

(wind howling)

- Oh it's raining!

- If it turns into snow we won't have to go to school.

- Ernst this storm seems to be stronger than normal.

- Yes I think you're right.

Anna dear do we have anything for covering up these windows?

The way the wind's blowing everything'll get wet.

- Oh dear!

It stormed like this the night we were shipwrecked!

(wind howling)

- Could you hold the bottom while I nail this up.

- Sure got it! - Nail?

- Here. - Thank you.

(Father hammering)

(wind howling)

- [Becca] We used every mat we had

to cover the front windows,

they helped but they couldn't keep all the rain out.

- Mommy why is the wind blowing the rain so hard?

- It's a storm darling that's what storms do.

- [Jack] Oh.

- If it stops raining tomorrow I think we should all go out

and make better covers for all the windows.

- Why bother with that?

We're going to be sailing away from the island very soon.

- That's true.

- [Mommy] Children why don't we go back to bed now?

There's nothing more we can do tonight.

- [Becca] Oh Mother!

- [Mother] Go on. - [Becca] Alright.

The storm raged on through the night.

(somber orchestral music)

- Huh?

Now the roof's leaking too!

I wonder how the ship is doing?

Well at least somebody can sleep.

- This storm's not letting up at all!

- [Fritz] Father don't you think we should go down

and check on the ship?

(Father and Fritz panting)

- Look! - We have to try to save her!

- Let's go!

(Father and Fritz panting)

- [Father] Take that side - Right!

We'll try to push her out of the surf!

(Father and Fritz groaning)

- [Father] Keep pushing, a little more!

Push!

Push!

- Fritz?

Mother where's Fritz?

- At the ship with your father.

- The ship?

Don't you think we better help them?

- Well uh...

- Mom! Come on they might need some help.

Can't we go?

- [Father] Pull!

Here she comes!

Hold her!

(Fritz groaning)

Hold her!

Fritz! Fritz are you alright?

- I'm fine.

- [Father] Oh no! Let's go! Come on!

(waves crashing)

(Father and Fritz exclaiming)

- Oh dear!

- Oh no Mother the ship is floating away!

- There's nothing more we can do now Becca.

- But!

(ship breaking)

(somber orchestral music)

- The ship, the ship that took Fritz

and Father so long to build,

it's gone, all those dreams are gone.

It's so unfair!

(somber orchestral music)

♫ Come sail around the world with me

♫ Ride on the waves of the deep blue sea

♫ Float to an island where the days are free

♫ Spend some time with my family

♫ The Swiss Family Robinson

♫ Living in the sun ♫