Moonclaw123

Wales

Jun 21, 2019 4 years ago

I remember sitting in the little dingy. My uncle had forgotten the plugs for the side and bottom of the blow up boat, so we were sitting in a pool of cold salt water. Lucy, my cousin was shivering on one of the seats and my brother, Connor sat opposite her doing the same. Eleanor, Lucy's older sister, was sitting with me. We were in the part of the raft that had water washing over it. The water was cold to me, but only because I was used to the warmer New Zealand oceans. I remember thinking that I didn't mind the cold water as it was refreshing on such a sunny day. The Welsh hills were green and the sky was clear, no clouds in sight. The water was like glass too and I was able to see the sandy bottom of the sea. My Uncle Chris was pulling the boat, my youngest cousin Robert on his shoulders. He pulled us around the rocks and eventually back up to the beach as Lucy and Connor wanted to get off. Once they had left the boat, my Uncle turned us around. I had spotted a rock not to far out in the bay and I asked my Uncle if he could drop us off at it. He was fine with that and took us over to the barnacle covered rock. Eleanor and I spent about ten minutes trying and failing to get onto the rock. After what must have been several attempts, we were both sitting on the rock. We told my Uncle he could leave and play with Robert if he wanted and so they went back to the shallow waters. This was at the time that the Moana movie had come out and so Eleanor and I were singing about how the rock was ‘our island' to the tune of “how far I will go”. We named the island Elfa, for Eleanor and Fae. We were very happy just sitting on the rock and watching the beach. However, Robert, being only three, thought we were stranded and so took charge. He sailed the dingy (or more Uncle Chris sailed it for him) to the rock were he told us to “Get on quick”. We did this, playing along with his pirate game and we headed back to the beach. This time we got out of the dingi to and ate some grapes. We stayed on the beach until late in the afternoon when we went to get some dinner. Up in the town there was a fish and chip shop so we went inside. I have searched on google for this chip shop before and I have found out that Prince Charles had visited it a few years before us. We ate out dinner quickly, eager to buy an ice cream. I remember that I got Jaffa flavour and that it was rippled like tiger fur. After eating our dessert we went back to my cousins caravan. I really miss my cousins and I can't wait to see them again. -Moonclaw123

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