Essay About Beach Life

The weirdest feeling of my life happened this past summer while I was at a summer camp with my friends. It started out as just a normal day at camp, I was hanging out with my friend Jack. We would go out on a small sailboat everyday with two other people and lay out on the lake for a few hours. The lake there was so calm and quiet while you’re out there, the only thing that you notice is the sound of the waves hitting your boat and the warmth of the sun on your skin as you lay there. We were having quite a lot of fun out on the lake on the boats even though we didn’t really know how to sail that well, we only learned how to sail that week and we only learned the basics. We went out with a couple friends that we met that week at camp on the sailboat and just started sailing away from the camp where it was much quieter away from the hundreds of kids where there’s never a time of quiet.

I was steering for the first time that day and I didn’t pay attention during the lesson but it didn’t seem that complicated so I just went for it. It was pretty easy getting away from camp with the wind pushing us away, I would even say a breeze to leave shore. We went out past the small island in the middle of the lake and to the point where the island covered our view from camp and all we could see was the lake around us and the forest on the edge of the land. I was quite tired from the week as it was about halfway through the week so I thought it was a great idea to rest my eyes for a bit since the wind died down and we weren’t moving anywhere fast. I took off my life jacket to use as a back rest and while I was resting my friend Jack was keeping conversation with the two other people we took out on the boats. About five minutes after I closed my eyes the wind started to pick up so my friends woke me up on the boat so that I could start steering us back to