Diving

This is a recount about my holiday. I am on level six in my writing and working on being consistent with sophisticated punctuation. HOPE YOU ENJOY:)

Diving

It was an early Sunday morning, The boat engine coughed, spluttered then roared into life, “Off we go!” yelled my uncle as we zoomed across the ocean surface. I was like a child on Christmas day. “this is gonna be fun ” I mumbled.

As we flew across the ocean I couldn't help but think how fun it is gonna be, but, little did I know it was gonna be everything but that.  A few minutes later we got to our super secret family spot. Right as we got there the wind picked up the waves got bigger and the sky went grey; it was like mother nature was taunting me. But my determination to get in and help bring back a feed for the Whanau trumped the fact that the water was going to be absolutely freezing.

I went rummaging through all the bits and bobs in the cabin then froze as if I was looking into the eyes of Medusa- “I forgot my dive gear!” “Typical,” my uncle said as he shook his head in disappointment. But still, I wanted to get in, I hoped to get in, I needed to get in the water. There was only one option left, I had to use a girls wetsuit. So I sucked it up and slipped it on, finally it was time to get in. SPLASH! The more the water submerged my body the more I was starting to freeze. “Brrrrrrr” The coldness was so overwhelming words could barely describe it. 

As I was swimming around I noticed the Kina were microscopic could this trip get any worse? I thought to myself. So after lots and lots of searching I found about twenty decent size kina; All that work and I only had twenty Kina to show for it, I didn’t want to disappoint everyone so I ignored the fact that it felt like my feet felt like they were about to drop off. I was swimming around the shallows and suddenly got this feeling, a feeling that I couldn't ignore, it felt as if something was watching me... And something was, I dove down to check a cray hole when suddenly two massive monstrous majestic stingrays gilded graciously upwards towards me they got so close I could touch it. I knew that if I made one false move I would end up like Steve Urwin.

“I’m over this,” I thought to myself I used the last of my energy to swim back to the boat. I thought the trip couldn't possibly get worse...Not! Turns out I had hypothermia. my hands went blue like a smurf. My uncle got back not long after, shocked at the sight of my hands and insisted we went home. I agreed eagerly and drove the boat ashore, packed up and went home. “Glad that's over” I mumbled.

In summary, today was not the best, I got hypothermia, I nearly did a Steve Urwin and got bugger all Kinas. but I guess it could have been worse.