Pink Beach Chapter 6

It was a long, long, empty beach with big waves breakingbreaking on it. The sand was clean and smooth - "But it isit's    grey!" the children shoutedshouted all together.together. They were so badlybadly disappointeddisappointed that they sat down.

"All that strugglestruggle just to see a grey beach," said Mrs Gale. Then she lookedlooked at her family. "Look at us," she said, "just look at us!" The children lookedlooked at each other, they had nothadn't    had time to in the bush, and they laughedlaughed and laughed.

"We do look awful, do notdon't    we Dad?" said Mia.

"You all look as hot and tiredtired and sore as I feel," Mr Gale said, "and you look filthy,filthy, too. What we all need is a swim to make us a bit cleanercleaner and fresher,fresher, and then we need some lunch."

So they made a fire on the grey beach and swam and playedplayed in the waves while the kettle boiled.ed. Then they ate two hard-boiled eggs each, severalseveral slices of bread and butter,butter, some tomatoestomatoes and raisins, and washedwashed it all down with two cups of smokesmoky tea. FinallyFinally they sat watchingwatching the sea, crunchingcrunching on juicy apples. Mrs Gale asked, "Who feels better now?"

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