Clash by Rick Bundschuh Bethany Hamilton

Author:Rick Bundschuh Bethany Hamilton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: ZONDERVAN
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Bethany couldn’t help smiling. After a couple days of rain, the sun had crawled out from behind the clouds, the trade winds wound down, and the island returned to the warm, sunny paradise made famous on so many postcards. It was awesome surfing weather.

Floating on the water, she felt her excitement build as she spotted the large swell coming toward her. While most girls tended to back away from bigger surf, she came alive in it. Bethany waited for the perfect moment and then pitched herself over the face of the wave, using gravity to sweep her down the wave as she simultaneously sprang to her feet.

Moments later, she shot forward toward shore in an impressive spray of white water that seemed to glint like diamonds in the bright sun. What an awesome day! she thought happily.

Bethany was so relieved that she didn’t have to work out in the rain again. She was even more relieved when she saw Monica waving at her from her beach cruiser in the parking lot. Bethany had been training like crazy for the contest and was looking forward to taking a little break.

She also needed someone to talk to. Malia had been working so much they hadn’t had a chance to get together, so Bethany had been left to deal with her thoughts by herself. Not fun.

After quickly packing her surf gear in the back of her mom’s van, Bethany and Monica were off, pedaling their beach cruisers down the coconut palm-tree-lined road that led to Hanalei Bay Pier. Glimpses of turquoise water flashed past them between the rows of expensive homes.

“Wouldn’t it be great to live in one of these houses?” Monica said dreamily.

“Yeah, until a tsunami came,” Bethany answered wryly. “Remember the story of the house built on sand?”

“Sure, I remember that story, but the guy had a great view while it lasted,” Monica laughed.

The bikes wheeled down a bumpy little path and then onto the concrete deck of the pier. Along the edge of the pier, old men and women with brown wrinkled faces hidden under large floppy hats fished with cane poles. At the end of the pier was a large roofed pavilion with a stainless steel ladder reaching down into the water. In a former life, the pier had been a hub of shipping activity, but now it served primarily as a tourist attraction and viewpoint for those wanting to watch beginners catch the small waves that brushed under its pilings.

Most island children saw the pier as a launch pad and would jump together in groups, laughing wildly as they cannonballed into the warm ocean only to scramble back up the ladder and do it again.

Bethany and Monica laid their bikes down at the end of the pier and stared into the water.

“Look!” Bethany pointed. “Hammerheads!”

Sure enough, baby hammerhead sharks, about a foot in length, darted in and out of the pilings.

“That’s nuts!” said Monica.

“Haven’t you ever seen them before? They’re here a lot,” Bethany said.

“They’re too small to

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