Finding Land People, Underwater
I swam toward the coast. I knew what I had to do: I had to find land people and get them to follow me back to the barrels so they could help. It was a great plan. The only problem was, I didn’t know where to find land people. I’d come across land people underwater [...]
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As we approached a nearby reef, I started to notice something wrong in the water. It smelled funny. It was hard to explain, but I could definitely tell something was wrong. “There it is,” shouted Roger. “That’s what made Clyde sick.” Lying on the bottom of the reef were several large barrels, and some of [...]
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I knew that Roger was upset. He rushed off ahead very quickly. Clyde, Paulie, and I had a hard time keeping up with him. “Roger!” I shouted. “Wait!” Roger stopped and turned around. Swimming as fast as I could through the warm blue water, I finally caught up to him. “Where are we going?” I [...]
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The lady octopus that Paulie had met swam down to the seaweed patch and began picking the stems of seaweed, each with three berries on them. She held two of them in each of her six tentacles. Paulie smiled, finally realizing what she was doing. When the octopus gathered the last piece of seaweed, she [...]
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Paulie sped off toward the seaweed patch. As he made his way over the ridge, he finally saw it: seaweed spanned as far as his eye could see. It was like a green river under the ocean. “I did it! I found the seaweed medicine!” he shouted, doing a backflip in the process. Looking around [...]
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Paulie swam as fast as he could, trying to locate the seaweed patch that Jolly Roger told him about. “I gotta find the seaweed patch. Seaweed … seaweed,” he mumbled to himself. He wasn’t watching where he was going when he bumped into a large grouper fish. The impact made him bounce right off the [...]
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After finding a sick whale that had been pushed back into the water after being beached, Roger and I escorted it back to the area where we’d left Paulie and Alex. Whales usually prey on smaller fish, so you can imagine how Paulie felt when he saw this. We were bringing a potential predator right [...]
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Jolly Roger, Alex, Paulie and I headed to the beach. We exited Roger’s cave through an opening on top of the cave, which was a secret entrance only Roger knew about. As we swam toward the shoreline, I noticed Alex was watching a small family of stingray swimming nearby. He didn’t say anything, but I [...]
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Paulie swam up to Roger’s sleeping area, flopped down onto a bed of seaweed, and bounced a few times. Alex and I just watched him. “What?” Paulie asked, looking at us. “He said his home is our home.” Paulie continued to bounce on the seaweed patch. Roger’s cave was full of things he had found [...]
Posted by Dan under From Eartha | Permalink | No Comments »Making friends
My friends and I were relieved to know that the cave monster was not a monster at all, but it was my friend Jolly Roger! Roger and I had met at the marinelife center where I was cared for when I got tangled in fishing line. Roger led us into the wide open cavern that [...]
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