I woke to the beautiful sound of waves crashing on the shore. The morning air was cold and salty. I stepped out of my tent, sand creeping in between my toes and ran over towards my family.
We have been camping for a week now up north at The Bluff, and today we went snorkelling. The water was amazing. We jumped off a rock called fish rock – it’s the best rock to go fishing off – and then swam out past the waves. The water was crystal clear and the surface was calm and glassy. In the first ten minutes a large manta ray glided past me, its thin flaps cutting the water. I swam through a small tunnel of rocks surrounded with tiny blue glowing fish. I also swam alongside with two turtles, one small and one quite large. I saw three parrot fish, their colours bright like a rainbow. I started to get shivers running all over my body so I turned towards the shore and got out. The sun was hot on my skin and I dried quickly without using my towel.
Our camp site is on a hill, they have a shack there and we also set up some tents of our own. The shacks called The Stone Shack. My feet were burning by the time I got all the way up to the shack. We were invited to the Durant’s house for dinner that night, they live at The Bluff. The dinner there was divine, we had Cray balls- I don’t like Cray fish but I have to admit they were good.
By the end of the day I was overly tired and went straight bed and wrote this.