Zeal and Abel

Today we woke up and went to this weird beach.  I call it weird because high tide comes in and when it starts to recede you can literally watch the tide go back out in just a couple of hours.  When we got there it was still high tide so there was no beach to walk on.  Then the water started to recede so we could walk on the beach.  We found shells that were really flat.  Also my sister found a starfish on a rock.  It was about the size of a penny.  After finding out the beach had starfish me and my brother started looking for them determined to find some.  The water receded enough for me to walk to a sand bar.  When I got over there I went to see what the birds were looking at.  When I got over there I saw two starfish the size of my palm.  I went and took them back to the bucket.  At one point we found three or four perfect sand dollars.  Also when the water receded enough to look through the seaweed I found a whole colony of starfish.  I went and showed my parents.  We found a lot of starfish.  My dad said we could each take two back and dry them out so we could take them with us.  I named mine Zeal and Abel because we found them in New Zealand and in the Abel Tasman Sea.  My sister named one of hers Patrick.  After that we looked for pippys.  They are like clams or oysters.  You can eat them so my dad wanted to collect a few.  When we got back we laid out the starfish and sand  dollars and went to take showers.  I was really hungry when dinner rolled around.