Meet my mate, Dave the droplet. In June he dropped out of a cloud above Ethiopia onto a mountain range called the Ethiopian Highlands. From here he began a six month journey with billions of other droplets from Ethiopia, through Sudan and Egypt, and finally to the Mediterranean Sea.
Follow Dave on his journey.
Click on the letters A-J to see some of the pictures Dave took on his journey down the Nile, or click here to download the whole of Dave's photo album. Can you match up Dave's pictures to the numbers on the map?
After you've had a go click here to see if you were right!
Download, print and cut up extracts from the diary that Dave wrote on his journey. Can you match them up to the numbered places on the map and the pictures in his photo album?
I've plotted Dave's journey for you using Google Earth.
Download Dave's journey.
Wow, that was some journey! And what a lot of adventures Dave had along the way! Thinking about Dave's diary thoughts and scribbles:
- What do you think was the most frightening part of my mate Dave's journey to the sea?
- What was the most relaxing?
- In what places was he moving fastest?
- In what places was he moving more slowly?
- Along the way, how might people stop some of his fellow droplets finishing their journey to the sea?
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