day white water rafting
... As I turned to the left and right, only the crystal water of the river was beside me. ... ” I stepped out onto the water’s edge. ... I took a deep breath with no worries, and was about to embrace the river on my first white water rafting experience. ... As my friend Dan explained what to do, I could not stop staring at the water ahead. ... The raft pushed off the dirt clumped together on the side of the water’s edge. ... The water suddenly changed and the heavy waves pounded on me as I attempted to maneuver around the feared whirlpool of water foaming with fury. In a heartbeat the exhilarating feelings of going downhill on a water cliff took over. ... I paddled forward, stroke after stroke, when suddenly I glanced up just as a towering white wall of water crashed over the bow. ... My stomach turned and groaned, all the work the water put me to made me and my friends hungry. ... We began to eat our lunch that had become damp from all the water around.