Joanne's+Story

The cruise ship shook a little as it came to a stop. "You may only get off when the doors open," said the captain of the ship. Joanne's family got everything they needed before leaving the ship for the day. The two parents first left. “We’ll be right there,” Joanne called after them. “You got the bread?” Joanne whispered to her brother, Norman, after their parents was out of earshot. All he did was smile. They left their room and went to the main lobby which would lead them to the main entrance/exit.

Everyone in Joanne’s family was delighted by what they saw as they stepped off the ship. The scenery was beautiful! The sand was very soft and not polluted with seaweed and clams, the ocean was so clean you were able to look into it and be able to see the bottom, and there was a relaxing band playing in the background. Everything was breathtaking there.

Many seagulls were pecking in the sand scavenging for food. “Well, they won’t be finding that much food in sand this clean,” I thought to myself. As we got near them, the seagulls flew away in fright and flew back smelling food with their keen sense of smell. Joanne and Norman glanced around slowly and then got out the bread they had snuck off the ship. They ripped the bread to pieces and threw that into the air for the seagulls. All of them fought over the pieces of baked flour until one of them realized there was no more bread and flew off and the others joined.

As high tide rolled in, Joanne and Norman brought a sunchair, a little too small to fit them both, to where the waves met the sand. The salty waves washed over them again and again, leaving a layer of salt on their skin until the next wave washed it off and left a new layer. They both had a lot of fun trying not to swallow salt water and staying on the chair, but they didn’t know that something bad was about to happen.

The wave came, pushing away everything in its way. Water sprayed everywhere, the undisturbed sand was now twirling around, and fish were jostled from their original location. The crashing sound that came from it was so loud it hurt Joanne’s ears. Then “BOOM!” it came. The great impact between the big wave and the two small kids on a sun chair pushed Joanne off the chair and caused her to scrape her ankle on the chair. When the damage was done, the wave gently rolled back out to sea.

As Joanne got up, she felt a little dizzy. Now recalling what had happened, she looked around to see the damage the wave had done. It looked like there was a storm just hit. The sand that used to be smooth and soft now was splattered all over the place, some fish were washed up on the shore, and just about everything was sprayed with water. “Who knew one wave could do so much?” she asked herself.

THIS IS REALLY WEIRD BECAUSE THE REST OF MY STORY ISNT HERE.  