Cobra Island: A Short Story

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My family and I were traveling to the Bahamas in search of a new island called Cobra Island that was supposedly off shore about 150 miles. The plane finally landed into the small island of the Bahamas. All I could see for miles was the nice beautiful Atlantic Ocean. As soon as we got off the tiny turboprop plane, we were greeted by our wonderful tour guide named Xavier. Xavier was the best tour guide you were able to get throughout the whole island. Xavier took my family and I to our hotel that we are staying at.. We went to the front desk, got our keys, and went on up to our room. We all unpacked and all I could think about was discovering the island? It was right around suppertime so we all went out to eat at a old fish restaurant. We were done eating, so Xavier took us to beautiful pier. He told us that this was the place that we would begin our journey. We all talked for a little bit thinking about what was going to happen tomorrow. Then we went to sleep. “Wakeup, it's time to go catch our boat.” My mom said. So I rushed to get up. I could barely get any sleep last night because of how bad I wanted to go. I hurriedly got dressed and brushed my teeth. I …show more content…

I looked around and had seen that it started raining. Which I knew that this wasn’t a good thing that we were in big danger if it got worse and it did. It was just five minutes later that the rain had started to mix in with hail. Then, it was another 5 minutes whenever the lightning and thunder had gotten worse and the wind started getting more fierce. We all were told by the Captain that we needed to get into cover right now. Which the only cover was under the life deck. So one by one we climbed into the tiny hole to be safe. This was whenever water starting dripping from the floor. It gradually started to increase. Finally, water started rushing in, I knew that this was it. This is whenever I blacked

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