Surf Carnival

Surf Carnival

What a freezing day.  It was almost like there would be icicles sticking to the wall. We are traveling to Westshore beach in Napier during the holidays for my surf lifesaving carnival. The  carnival was for  juniors that are aged 5 to 13.  The carnival is when we have all the teams together and we compete against each other it is so fun.  The waves were shockley huge but not as huge as the waves at Waimarama beach.  The carnival was meant to be there but the waves were too big for us so the had to move the carnival to Westshore beach. At the carnival there were 4 different clubs there was Waimarama, Ocean beach kiwi, Pacific beach and Westshore.

 

First race up for my group was flag race.  The race was down on the hard marble colourful rocks that we wet from the massive waves washing in to shore with white foam coming in just before the  wave into shore. So now all of the stones stick to you it is so annoying.  The lady was lining us up so we were not by your mates.  A few minutes later  she was done and the first group was up heads up head down Go!! All of my friends that were in the race I could see them running as fast as they could none of my friends did not get out so I was so happy.  Next was my race It looked liked I had fast people in my race so I was a bit scared Heads up heads down Go. I am running as fast as I can I try my best and  do a huge dive for the flag I got the flag so I am not out.  After that race I had another race I lied down on my mark and go I run as fast as I could but sadly I did not get a flag so I had to sit out.  I was down to the last 2 Harriet one person from Waimarama and this girl from Westshore YAY!! Harriet got the flag so she got 1st.

When the boys were finished their race we wandered over to West Shore school to do sprints and relay there the grass was not the nicest but it will do.  The sprints was the first race I was in the race number 1. You are in the starters hand BOOM!! goes the gun I show Parkvale pride and run as fast as I could but I did not get in the top 4.  Then it was the finals there was Stella, Ruby, Harriet and 1 of my other friends.  3 2 1 BANG I gun went off I could see Stella’s legs going really fast but Stella did not get 1st she got 3rd but again Harriet got 1st and the same Westshore girl got 2rd.  Now it is the relays. In my team I had Molly, Meg, Charlotte and Me I was starting then it was Charlotte then Molly and finally Meg.  The man blew his whistle because he ran out of staters for the race gun.  I am racing hard out because I want my team to win I pass it to Charlotte and lots of the other teams have dropped there batten so we are in the lead.  But when Charlotte passes it to Molly she drops it so now you are coming 2rd Meg is running as fast as she can I Yay we got in the top three we got third I am so proud of my team.   We walked back over to the beach and now It is the ocean swim I have been looking forward for the swim since we started the carnival.  The whistle blew I started wading in the sea and all of a sudden it went so deep so now I started to swim.  I am so close to the pull boy I start doing some polo swimming yay I am at the poi now I have to swim back to shore I pass some more people I see some people have already finish the race.  I see a big wave behind me I try and catch it and I did so I got up and ran between the flag I got 17th place I was so proud of myself.

We were waiting for such a long time to do the lolly scramble.  While we were waiting I was watching the big 12-13 year old boys do their board race at that time there were huge wave. They were out in the sea when I huge wave came so they had to tip their board upside down so they would not get knocked out but they did.  I was walking around with Molly and one of my other friends and we were so hungry we had 3 sausage sizzles they were so yum.  Sadly a few minutes later mum and dad said “it is time to go this is taking to long” so we had to go.  On the way home we stop of a the dairy and we got a ice-cream the flavour was hot chocolate with marshmallows it was one yummy flavour.  It has been a really fun day at Westshore beach even if it was cold.