Welcome home! Adorable moment two-year-old girl dashes along quay yelling ‘I love you’ and leaps into her fisherman father’s arms as he returns from two days at sea
- Ben Rowse, 34, arrived back in Newlyn, Cornwall, after a few days out at sea
- His daughter Toni-Rose, two, frantically waved as she saw his boat arrive
- She ran down the quay towards her father with open arms, yelling ‘I love you’
This is the moment a fisherman gets an adorable welcome home from his excited two-year-old daughter who runs after his boat as it sails back into a Cornish harbour.
Toni-Rose, two, had been staying with her mother, Demelza, when her father, skipper Ben Rowse, 34, was out at sea with The Real Cornish Crab Company.
Ben’s partner Tegan Howard, 31, picked up Toni-Rose and drove her to meet her father as he arrived back in Newlyn, Cornwall.
Toni-Rose, two, waved frantically as she saw her father Ben Rowse’s fishing boat arrive in Newlyn, Cornwall
In an adorable video, Toni-Rose can be seen frantically waving and calling ‘Daddy’ as she spots his boat nearing the harbour.
She runs down the quay chasing the boat as it passes her, then dashes towards her father with open arms as he disembarks, yelling ‘I love you’.
A delighted Ben laughs as he scoops the little girl up in his arms.
Toni-Rose runs down the quay. Her father disembarks the boat and they run towards each other with open arms
The two-year-old reaches her father after running and yelling ‘I love you’
Tegan, social media manager for the company, said: ‘He’d only been away a couple of days. He usually goes for about two or three days but sometimes up to five days.
‘She does miss him. They FaceTime when he’s away but she sometimes doesn’t see him for over a week.’
She added that Ben would usually pick Toni-Rose up but he had asked her to do it because he might have been in late.
The video was filmed on May 12 and The Real Cornish Crab Company shared the video on their Facebook page for Father’s Day.
Now, it is being used as part of the #HomeAndDry campaign for Maritime Safety Week.
Ben lifts his daughter in his arms as they are reunited after he returns from a few days at sea fishing for crabs and lobsters
The campaign doesn’t aim to tell fishermen how dangerous fishing is but what would make them take their safety at sea more seriously. They said getting home to their loved ones.
The original video was liked thousands of times and received a flurry of comments, including relative Mark Rowse who said: ‘This video gets me every time!’
Tegan continued: ‘Ben absolutely loved it. That one was pretty special.
‘His dad’s a fisherman too and that’s the kind of thing he can remember doing when he was a kid.
‘Ben was out fishing for crabs and lobsters, it was a good trip I think.’
The new clip is now being used as part of the #HomeAndDry campaign for Maritime Safety Week