The Amazing Experience at South Beach

On Wednesday 8th of June, 2011, the whole of Fordell School took a trip to South Beach, to collect pumice, because we were making pumice towers.

We went armed with plastic bags and travelled in the parents’ cars who had kindly offered transport to South Beach and back. There were a lot of puddles on the road so the cars got a rather muddy shower.

When all the cars had driven to the South Beach car park and had stopped their engines, we got our plastic bags and ran down the path to South Beach. I gasped at the wonderful sight. Sand was sparkling, coated with shells and pumice. The waves were crashing down onto the sand, a great big mess of water and foam. Then I saw the pumice and realised everyone was bending down to collect it. I quickly copied them and soon my bag was full of pumice. It was vey heavy so I put it down.

Then Libby and I went to explore. I found a hollow piece of wood that had a hole in the bottom and looked like it was strong so I filled it with beautiful shells and blocked the hole with sticks and sand. Then we were called to morning tea.

After morning tea Libby and I slid on the sand dunes until it was time to leave and got sand up our undies.

I really enjoyed my experience at South Beach and recommend you go there too. The sand dunes are really steep but don't go on them if you don’t want to get sand up your undies.

By Georgina