From the outside, the water looked murky, once we were in the water it was clear and beautiful with coral and fish all around me. My family and I are in Hawaii about to go on an amazing adventure.
Our adventure began when we arrived at this guy’s home. In order to get to the beach, we had to cross his home. This was no ordinary home, this guy lived in a tent in a forest. My mom was curious and wanted to explore the house. We heard chickens clucking so we went to find them. When we found them it felt like there were billions of chickens everywhere and it looked like there were hundreds of baby chicks following their mothers. When we got to the end of our tour we walk to a hill. We had to go down to get to the beach, it was covered in
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We climbed down carefully. About half way down we picked a spot to sit. After we got our goggles and snorkel gear on we headed to the water. The water was calm and looked like ice. It was murky, I was ready to dive in and explore. I dipped my feet into the freezing cold water. We snorkeled to where there were a lot of different types of corals, fish started to pop out. Everywhere we looked we saw different corals. Some were spiky, some were yellow and different shades of blue. I was shocked because I have never seen blue coral before. There were different types of fish all around me. We were looking for a yellow tang. After I0 minutes of searching, we finally found the yellow tang. As we were swimming along we found an eel hiding in the coral. As the eel slithered up to me, I started to panic. I started to swim away then I looked back and saw that the eel was following me. I was worried that it would bite my leg so I started to swim away faster. After a few seconds the eel quit chasing me and darted back down to its cave, I was relieved. When I was swimming I stood up and a coral was under me. I kicked the coral then got a cut it burned a lot, so I decided to get out of the
I smiled to myself and decided that I would go join in. With that, I took a huge deep breath and jumped into the salty water. The water was cool and refreshing; I felt it slide through my hair making it sway in the water. I swam deeper and deeper into the deep blue water. Sunlight streamed through it, lighting up the water around me turning it to gold. I kicked harder and I felt my muscles surge with strength and I pushed further. My lunges began to burn for the need of oxygen, but I refused to go up. I repeatedly told myself just a little bit longer. Until I was unable to proceed anymore without more air in my lungs, I swam to the top of the water taking a huge breaths, filling my lungs with air. I could then taste the salty water as it ran down my face and dripped over my lips. Just then I thought, I will never forget this moment, this place, or the experiences I felt while visiting
I feel something brush over the top of my right foot. A sharp-tickling pain comes on the top of my foot. Quickly, I run out of the warm ocean water onto the dry sand. My mom notices something. “What is this?” she questioned. “It’s a jellyfish!”
My vomit clouded the ocean surface with a purple-brown color before fading below the depths. On the other side of the vessel, I re-equipped my mask and plunged into the water to be greeted by my aunt – she was to be my snorkeling partner as she had much experience in the depths of Hawaii. When I submerged my head it was almost as if I had entered a new world. This unseen dimension housed a coral reef that vibrantly shone with a mixture of bright reds and deep blues. The reef almost seemed to pulsate as thousands of fish darted in and out of their subterranean homes. The water was thick with salt and teemed with plankton. We often resurfaced to point out fish to each other. I remember my aunt telling me of the environmental dangers of touching the still-living coral. “If you pierce its skin it will likely become infected and die, and all of the fish who live in it will die too,” she expertly explained. From then on I kept my distance to at least 5-6
On the way to Texas, we had to drive across the Louisiana Bridge. While we were driving across the bridge, I noticed that the bridge was standing in one huge murky muddy marsh. In the marsh were cattails. They were growing and were being used as a disguise by many of animals. I was staring at the water below us and it took me a minute but I saw an alligator in the midst of the cattails. He was long and a grayish brown. He was camouflaging himself within the cattails. It did not take long for us to pass him but I thought it was the coolest thing I had ever seen.
I was on a trip to Australia. When I went there I had a goal set in mind, which was to go and see all the different types of fish. While I was on the boat, I also brought a friend who is a marine biologist, named Joe. I had my fishing line out, then I felt a slight tug, but then it got harder, until I asked Joe to come help me. When we brought it out of the water we were surprised since it was nothing I had ever seen and my friend Joe looked puzzled not for the same reason as me, but for why it was here. He said that the fish I caught was called a Green Jackal fish.
Anyone who’s ever scuba dived at a coral reef and seen the perfect handprint of dead coral can appreciate how fragile and delicate this ecosystem is.
We cruised down to the spot as the sun was just peaking over the greasy calm water. When we got there we dropped down our live eels and the striped bass could not resist. I instantly felt the strike. It was a big fish. When it came to the boat I took my sharp pointy gaff and snagged the lunker in the head and hauled him into the boat.
Nature is amazing. People are discovering new creatures every day. Some of things that people discover are mind-boggling. A group of fishermen recently caught a monkfish. These fish come from the coast of Gibraltar. They can be found at the bottom of the seafloor. These monkfish have huge feet, and they hide until they find prey to catch.
The next day my family and I went to the beach. On the way to the beach, we saw a pond with a hundred turtles and a few vast fish and one of the turtles was the size of a penny and it was delightful.
I had my mind set that I wasn’t going to even get out of the boat much less touch one. As we are riding up to the sandbar where all the stingrays are, I can feel the wind hitting my face and the heat of the sun on my body. I can smell the salty ocean water as it crashes up on the side of the white boat. A few families of four were on with us and they were laying on the front of the boat looking down into the water where there was sea turtles and some stingrays floating around. As i'm laying on the net at the front of the boat i can feel the water hitting my back.
...k. Scared and moving back a little more, the shark was in a freeze position no flipping or wobbling, the only thing that was making a move was his gills. Wanting to know more I asked what kind of shark it is and was told that it’s a Caribbean Reef Shark. After the adult left all the children there, we start to poke it with a stick and was touching it with our hands and feet to feel the skin, which felt rough like I was touching sandpaper. When the kids were poking the reef with the stick I thought it would react in a very aggressive way but that wasn’t the case, it was still calm until they start getting aggressive their self. I sacred cause that’s when the reef begun to start snapping at every movement that was making. It was getting too much for me to take especially since it was going out of control, so I left and have no clue as to what happen to the Reef Shark.
I was sure that today was going to be a good day for fishing. I was excited. I really wanted to hook into a shark. We got into the boat and left the
...mazingly) and we watched the engines start up, with water whirling everywhere below the surface. I ran to the front of the boat to look down into the water and I kept noticing all these little white puffs everywhere. From where I was, they kind of looked like plastic bags floating through the water. I called Kristi and my dad over to see them. As we were watching, these poofy little balls kept appearing out of nowhere, there must have been hundreds. Finally, a really big one floated its way into our line of vision and from the eighth deck we were able to see what they were. Jellyfish! Cute little iridescent balls of cotton.
I will never forget the first time I went snorkeling, it was something I had been afraid to do up until the moment I touched the water. Beforehand all I could think about was what if I got attacked by a shark? I was too young to die and I felt like I was tempting fate. Then once I made the plunge into the water everything washed away, as if the waves carried the fear with them as they folded over me. I remember that day so clearly, rocking back and forth, up and down, I sat on a small glass bottom boat. The enormous ocean waves making me nauseas as I put my snorkel gear on. I hurried as fast as I could, knowing my nausea would go away as soon as I entered the water. This wasn’t the first time I have gotten sea sick, but it only shows up when the boat is sitting still. As soon as I got my equipment on I jumped into the water, fins first. I felt the sensation of goose bumps shivering up my whole body, tiny bubbles rolling over my body from breaking the surface, they ran from my toes upwards to break free at the ocean’s surface. Once the bubbles cleared, I looked around to see a new blue world I have never experienced before. I heard the sound of the ocean, mumbled by the sound of my deep breathing and the tanks of the more experienced scuba divers below me. It’s a very relaxing and peaceful sound, and if I had not been in such a new and unusual place I could have floated with my eyes closed for hours.
This lukewarm water was deceiving though, because it only seemed lukewarm due to the drop in temperature and misty rainfall. The waves were rushing toward me like a bull to a matador’s red flag. My mouth tasted as if someone dumped a whole shaker of salt on my tongue. The wave pushed my further and faster as it I could feel the wave breaking on my body and there I was back at the shallows again floating in with the white wash and was ready for another wave. As I stood back up and ran back out to the deep water I saw one of my surfing mates catch the most perfect barrel it was rad. It would have been a great snap shot. I caught another wave, this one was even bigger. The thrust of the wave was twisting my body and I was pulled towards the sea