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Stunning Seatoun Wharf

The stunning weather brought everyone down to Seatoun Wharf. Well that's what brought Cobie, Tyler, Me and my Dad down. It was packed! People everywhere! Was I ever going to get to take my jump?! When I looked down towards the shimmering ocean I saw arrays of silvery, silky fish. Everyone was gazing at them, that’s when I knew it was my time to jump!

My feet fled off the railing as I hit the water, a splash of salty sea water flew into my mouth and stained the good taste of strawberry mints. Cobie and Tyler still hadn't jumped because they were scared that it was cold even though they were in full body wetsuits. I tried swooping down to the sandy sea bottom but my legs dragged me back up to the surface. As I looked up at the wharf everyone was clumped up like sheep staring at something beyond the other side. 

I darted like a squid to the ladder. The ladder felt like oozing slime on my feet, my head peeped over the ladder and I saw splashes in the deep water. I thought it was the splashes but no, it was dazzling dolphins diving in and out of the water. The dolphins swam back and forth. They were as fast as a jetski, I don’t know if they were running away or chasing something. It was so confusing it felt like a math question. I gazed across the other side and the water shimmered in the distance and it looked like tiny diamonds swaying across the water. 

I trotted down the sandy wharf to the boiling hot sand where I could lie down and relax. My feet burnt like sausages in a pan. It was actually that hot. I eventually got too hot and trudged down the transparent blue water and swam to the oozing ladder again, trying to shake the boiling hot sand off. I got up to the wharf and saw that the dolphins were gone. I sat down and gazed for a minute at the people jumping of the wharf

I saw my dad walking up the packed wharf. I saw him do his signal (waving his hand). It was twilight and time to go. I took my last jump and made it my best one. I swam endlessly to shore and saw my packet of strawberry mints glistening in the sun. “Yum I can finally get rid of the disgusting taste of seawater!”

By Charlie Smith