Pipes Ahoy!

It was a splendid sunny day in the tiny town of Kawhia, the sky was a brilliant blue.
Me and my cousins were jumping off a brown crumbly bank covered in long grass waving in the wind.
Leah was doing bombs off the bank making splashes of water as high as Pluto.
We swam down the channel and discovered a Willow tree with scratchy branches reaching down in to the water.
We climbed aboard it and it sank down even lower like a sinking ship.
We came up with a game where three of us linked into the chain, and the other floated down the channel with a stomach full of butterflies. But if you weren't careful you would be sucked through the pipes and get popped out at the other end, to be taken out to sea.
One time Jacob jumped in and went gliding down the channel, while I held Leah's legs and Locke held mine. Suddenly Locke's grip loosened from my ankles and he went rocketing down the channel after Jacob, then I slipped and went down after the others.
That left only Leah to rescue us, the current was really strong and before long we were dangerously close to the pipes.
As we got closer to the pipes the water started sucking us under like an angry monster.
Jacob and I, who weren't the worlds best swimmers were ducking under and popping back up with mouth fulls of salty sea.
We realised that we could hold Locke, so with a bit of effort we reached him and clambered onto him drowning him.
As we were about a metre from the pipes our hero Leah grasped us and started fighting against the current up to the tree. After about 2 minutes of hard swimming we reached the willow and clambered aboard it, the finger like branches biting into our skin.

By Meila