My new friend, Alex.
As I mentioned before, I made a new friend: Alex, the stingray. He’s super-smart and knows his way around the local reef. We swam to the other side of the reef today and saw a boat lying all the way on the bottom. We both swam to the bottom to look at it, and we saw it had a big hole in the side. Did we go in? You bet we did; we’re adventurers!
We slowly entered the boat. It was empty except for a few crabs that tried to shoo us away. Above us was another hole that was just big enough for me to fit through. Swimming around small places with a big shell is not as easy as it looks. On the top of the boat there wasn’t much to see. Alex said it was a fishing boat that sank in a storm. He said there are lots of boats at the bottom of the ocean and that one day he wants to find a treasure ship.
“What’s a treasure ship?” I asked him.
He said, “It’s a big boat that was filled with shiny coins and gems, which sank many years ago.”
Wow, I thought, Now that would be an adventure.
We swam around the boat a few times and saw some yellow jack fish swimming around the front of it. We then went back to the reef to see what everyone else was doing.
Wow, my first sunken boat. I wonder what tomorrow will bring for me?
Eartha
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