Narrative Essay On Manatees
Patrycja Kania
Narrative
On the Search for Manatees
I wake up to the sun shining on my face and my mom shaking me to get up so we could go on the dock together. Every morning she’d wake me up to see if I’ll ever be able to see any manatees on our vacation in Bonita Springs. With my luck, I was never able to see any, and that lead to a family joke. They always made fun of me for it, because my mom had the luck of being able to see them. Then there was me, who the manatees seemed to be afraid of. “I’m going out to the dock,” my mom announced, “I bet I’ll see one as soon as I walk onto the dock.” Of course, she was right. Except she didn’t see just one, she saw four. So, I decided to walk out onto the dock just outside of the motel to join my mom. I was able to hear the tides moving the boats aside us, and see the fish swimming around the dock. Every day, one of the guys who worked at the motel would feed two birds that came every morning for their breakfast. I was so fascinated by it, that the man gave me a shrimp so I could feed one of the two birds. He told us about how the birds fly to the dock every morning for the past 15 years to be …show more content…
After hours of sitting out on the dock, my cousins and I were getting tired. So, we decided to see who could catch a fish first, and then we’ll be able to go inside. It took us another hour in order for one of us to catch a fish. During that hour, there was a lot of frustration and yawning. Since we all gave up on trying to find a manatee, we began to bring in all of the plates that were once filled with food and the fishing poles. But, as soon as we started to get everything together, we heard a noise coming from the water that sounded like something was breathing. Well, to our surprise, that was the sea cow we were hoping to see. The sky around us was too dark to see near us, and the tiny lanterns on the dock didn’t help too
Narrative
On the Search for Manatees
I wake up to the sun shining on my face and my mom shaking me to get up so we could go on the dock together. Every morning she’d wake me up to see if I’ll ever be able to see any manatees on our vacation in Bonita Springs. With my luck, I was never able to see any, and that lead to a family joke. They always made fun of me for it, because my mom had the luck of being able to see them. Then there was me, who the manatees seemed to be afraid of. “I’m going out to the dock,” my mom announced, “I bet I’ll see one as soon as I walk onto the dock.” Of course, she was right. Except she didn’t see just one, she saw four. So, I decided to walk out onto the dock just outside of the motel to join my mom. I was able to hear the tides moving the boats aside us, and see the fish swimming around the dock. Every day, one of the guys who worked at the motel would feed two birds that came every morning for their breakfast. I was so fascinated by it, that the man gave me a shrimp so I could feed one of the two birds. He told us about how the birds fly to the dock every morning for the past 15 years to be …show more content…
After hours of sitting out on the dock, my cousins and I were getting tired. So, we decided to see who could catch a fish first, and then we’ll be able to go inside. It took us another hour in order for one of us to catch a fish. During that hour, there was a lot of frustration and yawning. Since we all gave up on trying to find a manatee, we began to bring in all of the plates that were once filled with food and the fishing poles. But, as soon as we started to get everything together, we heard a noise coming from the water that sounded like something was breathing. Well, to our surprise, that was the sea cow we were hoping to see. The sky around us was too dark to see near us, and the tiny lanterns on the dock didn’t help too