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Adventure in the Pacific Chapter 5


Chapter 5
The Escape
We paddle a while longer to see where the stream takes us and finding it leads to a pond, we turn around to go back to our quiet-as-a-mouse car. After getting back to the car we find we are hungry so we eat dinner.

After dinner, we decide to take a walk in the forest. It is starting to get warmer although the sun is going down. On the way I check our compass so we don't get lost. I look up and see at a distance a peculiar shape. It comes nearer and nearer until it is standing right next to us. I slowly reach into my backpack and pull out some rope to tie onto the animal so we can bring it back home. It looks like a cat but has a pink body with blue stripes. We take it back to our car and put the tent up. I'm tired and it is 10:30 so we go to bed.

Next morning, I wake up hearing rumbling noises and remember the black rock yesterday and how it was getting hotter. 'Wake up!!!' I yell to Miss Walker. 'A volcano is going to erupt!' We hurry packing things and change into our heatproof suits and flameproof camouflage boots. Just as the volcano is starting to erupt, we get into our ready-for-anything ocean capsule boat and zoom away. We agree that a perfect name for this island would be Black Rock Island.



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