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River

The day that I went to the river was risky because Dad refused to take the the car. So me (Lincoln), Alex and Catherine had to bike to the river.

It took around 20 minutes to bike. After we had hid our bikes in the bushes we looked around to see the best place to swim, and then I saw it sand streched as far as the eye could see and the water was perfectly still but then I saw the river rapids that cut straight through the calm waters.

So I changed into my togs and jumped into the river. I had goggles so I could see the river bed. I swarm over to the rapids and just befor I got pulled in I dived under them when I looked up it was like nothing I have ever seen befor. The water was moving in so many diffrent directions that my eyes felt funny. Then my hands slipped on the rocks that were keeping me down and I got sucked into the rapids. My body was rolling and turing that I felt like spweing up when I got out I just layed down on the sand and sun bathed.

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Living Dangerously

Rope, water, apples these were some of the items Matt and I took on our journey into the unknown. Our quest was to reach the water full on the the other side of the mountain and into the forest. We had to cross the Bartons farm to get to our destination. Matt and I were hiding under a tree and infront of us was an open paddock with no cover. On the other side of the paddock was the mountain. So we checked if our path was clear and ran as fast as our little legs could carry us. Then we saw the sheep if they got scare and ran the Mr Barton might see them and see us! So we ran faster and befor we knew it we were on the mountain. There was a path we could take but that went right around the mountain side. We decided to go straight up but it started to pour down so we went back to the path. The path was still very steep so we tied ourselves together with the rope we brought because if one of us fell then the other one could grab hold of something and pull the other person up.

We were half way around the path when right infront of us was boulders blocking our path, to our left was a cliff that went straight down, if one of us fell the we would be wiped clean from exsitance. On our right was a very steep hill, but we couldn’t give up now all we had to do was climb the hill to carry on our path. So it was agreed we go up the hill.

It was still raining and the was very slippery. It was easy at first but it just kept on getting steeper and steeper we were nearly at the top when Matthew lost his footing on the slippery rocks and then I was half rolling half falling but in the disaster I manged to grab onto a tree once I stabled myself I looked around for Matt then I saw the rope hanging over the edge of the cliff and I felt where the rope was attached to me and pulled it hard. After a few minutes I saw Matt, at first I thought he was dead but his hands moved and he pulled himself up then we just sat there puffing. Then Matt looked a me and said two words, “Thank you”.

Matt and I still wouldn’t give up so we looked for the water full for anouther hour but we couldn’t find it so we wakled home. Matt had a spranned ankle and I had hurt my knee. There was one paddock left to cross then we would be home (ahhhh home sweet home) Matt and I were half way across when a huge red bull was snorting at us so we limped and hobbled as fast as we could. We only just got away from the bull. When we got home all we did was lie down and then I thought were was that stinking water full.