5 A Strange Visitor

Chapter 5 A Strange Visitor We all looked up. Sure enough, in the distance there was a shark fin sticking out of the water! "WOW!" everybody said, which is "MOM" upside down. "Eeeeeeeeeeeek!" somebody screamed. Sharks are scary! My friend Billy, who lives around the corner, told me a shark can bite your head off like it's eating grapes. I saw a movie where this shark ate a bunch of people. In the end some guy threw a tank filled with gas in the shark's mouth and blew it up. It was cool. Everybody on the beach was yelling and screaming and freaking out. You should have been there!

Mr. Sunny blew his whistle and shouted, "Everybody out of the water! Leave this to me. I know how to handle sharks. I'll lure it away from the beach." Then he went running into the ocean. "Mr. Sunny is sooooooo brave!" Andrea sighed. "That's not brave," I said. "That's dumb. The shark could bite his head off like a grape."

We all watched as Mr. Sunny dived into the water. He was swimming right toward the shark! What a dumbhead! I was sure the shark was going to bite Mr. Sunny's head off like a grape. But it didn't. Because just as Mr. Sunny reached the shark, we figured something out. It wasn't a shark after all! No, it was a guy with a shark fin strapped to his back! Mr. Sunny dragged him up onto the beach. The guy was wearing flippers and a

diving mask. We all gathered around. I thought Mr. Sunny might have to give the guy mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. He was choking and spitting out water. "Glub, glub," said the guy. "Are you okay, dude?" asked Mr. Sunny. "G'day, mates!" the guy said. He had a funny voice. "Yes, I believe I am okay." "What's your name, man?" asked Mr. Sunny. "George Granite." "Dude, why do you have a shark fin attached to your back?" Mr. Sunny asked. "You scared us to death, man!" "I am a long-distance swimmer," Mr. Granite said. "Sometimes I roll over on my back, and the fin helps me stay in a straight line." "Where did you swim from?" somebody asked.

"Australia." WHAT???!!! "Australia?!" I said. "That's like a million hundred miles away!" "You swam all the way across the Pacific Ocean?" asked Andrea. "Well, I did stop to rest on a passing turtle," Mr. Granite said. It was totally amazing. But if you ask me, people who swim across oceans with shark fins on their backs are weird.