Adventures of the Sea

Original painting by @anikekirsten

On the eve of the my step sisters' (Kimberly) travel to Paris, I and Harry, my college mate decided to take our evening tour to the sea. Mom went to the store next street to get some groceries for the house, its not easy being a woman and also acting the role of the man of the house since Dad left her for one Chinese woman during his last term in office as Chief supervisor at his company during their yearly summit in Hong Kong, She (mom) has being finding it difficult to live with this knowing fully that her husband is far away from her bosom but everyone knows she is a strong woman. Waiting patiently for the sun to reduce its smile on us, we designed what we were gonna be doing at the sea, no swimming, just playing by the beach side, no surfing except for Terry who is the eldest among us and he's been practicing for a couple of months. The four of us took some drinks and some pancakes mom baked the other night with us, we took Harry's car and left for Sea Shizuoka. Sea Shizuoka is just 3 minutes drive from the streets of New Orleans, the sea was graced by many young men, beautiful looking women, kids were restricted from staying close to the banks, hopefully they won't spoil our little trip away from the sands cos the least among us was Me, I was only 17 at that time, I was nearing 18 in two months time. We highlighted from Harry's rugged black Jeep, looking all lit-up and ready to hit the banks, Harry's look made the Guard on duty believe we're all adults and so.... We reached for the sea. Kim was feeling a bit nervous about this because she doesn't love moving near waters talk less of the big roaring sea. The evening was calm and quiet enough for us to hear the movement of the turtle making its way through the vegetations under the sea.

"I'll stay here and watch the food" said Kim. What is wrong with you this time Kim, I replied. Her face rumoured some indefinite answers but what could I have done, I asked Terry to stay close to her, I know Terry would do anything for me so I gave him that job to do.

Harry was all set to hit the sea, I already bought my surf and kits and conceal in my bag to avoid others knowing I wanted to hit the sea with Harry. Let's go Harry! I joyfully said, off we go. Harry was a tall, muscular young dude who got the attention of all the beautiful ladies at Shizuoka that fateful evening, he sped his way across their boats and smiled handsomely at them, all I did was move in a slow manner and tried to fake some handsome smile, the sea wasn't friendly to me.

"Would you like to go under the water"? Asked Harry. I replied YES. All I needed was an oxygen tank and Harry's direction under water, we did the necessary things and phewwwwww!, we found ourselves under water. Harry was a good swimmer, I was only at my 70% best at this time but I still found my feet. Life under the sea seems so quiet that I thought all the living bodies under water are all dead, we saw a few specie of small fishes, beautiful and each with different colors, I was getting bored but there was no way to talk under water, I would have told Harry how I felt. We moved deeper and deeper, the view was getting more beautiful and interesting. We saw some green vegetations that are so colorful, millions of transparent looking fishes dash our tank and at one time I thought they were smiling at us. Harry was moving faster and was leaving me behind so I quickly increased my pace and met him near a cave under water, I signalled to Harry that we should go back to the beach cos it was getting late and mom would get worried, he moved in to the cave and I wouldn't want to me left behind. The cave was a beatiful world yet very different from life under the sea, I totally forgot we were still under water when I heard the loud movement of something or somewhat kind of huge life coming at us, we couldn't ask wuestinw, we held still to see what was coming at us, it was a very beautiful whale that swam above us. The wave of its movement felt as if the it took the water above us with it and drifted us apart. What A Beauty! I said to myself. This is a Beautiful Flying whale. Kim and Terry are definitely missing out here. We followed the Whale to see its home, we knew we were miles away from the beach but it was a trip not to be missed. She (whale) moved very fast and in time, we lost sight of it.

The flying whale

"Let's turn back around", Harry signaled. We moved in between those beautiful grasses and millions of fish waved at us as we were swimming our way back to the banks. I saw a black colored turtle that startled at me for a second, I felt it was trying to pass a message across to us but I didn't know this until we realized we were lost under water.

What shall we do? I asked Harry with all signals and body movements I could do to show how regretful I am right now for going too far. We moved along with the direction of the sea hoping it would take us back to our friends, Kim and Terry, they must have missed us and Oh! Mom must have gotten back from the store and I know how worried she would be right now. Poor Dave as mom would call me whenever I do something wrong and she doesn't want to get angry, its true I remind her of grandfather when she was living with him in the Netherlands.

We later came a bank but obviously not where we came from, how can this be? I asked myself. Could there be a sea with two banks?

We came out of water and it was still evening, darkness has refused to reveal its beauty, there was still hope that we could get some help before night falls. We walked a few minutes and found ourselves in a silent forest

[Original photo by @bex-dk

It was as beautiful as the vegetation under water but definitely not. We heard the birds welcoming us with their songs, they tweeted, chirped and hover around our heads. For once I was lost in the beauty of their kingdom.

I was feeling weak already, I missed the taste of mom's pancake and I was feeling so thirsty that I wanted to hit the sea again but this time with the singular notion to drink water. Night has fallen already, I guess its 7 pm already and the clouds were gathering. I can't withstand another heavy downpour here in the forest. We trekked a few distance before we headed the fainiting sounds of the DJ (Disc Joker) music blasting from his gigantic speakers. Yes! We found our wat back, Harry said. This was his first words since we hit the forests. I couldn't get angry at him because neither of us was at fault here, it was an adventure well deserved.

Hey! Dave, Harry, where have you guys been? We have been waiting for you all day. Kim said in a sorry tone. I ran to her and hugged her, I kissed her forehead and told her how sorry we are for leaving them for so long. We took some of the drinks back to the car, ate some pancakes and drove off back home.

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL ADVENTURE AWAY FROM HOME