Continued Story from Wild Things issue 153
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By Madeleine Aged 7
McKenzie bay is super cool, when I found it, I didn’t even intend to find it.
I was out fishing off the rocks and we saw an octopus in a rock pool at low tide.
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I saw the beach beyond the rocky point, which I hadn’t been to before
The next day I went back for a closer look and we walked along the beach.
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At the end of the beach, there was another rock formation, we walked along it there was some dried seaweed on the rocks that looked gold in the sun.
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We climbed up onto the rock formation, and my dad held me on the edge of one of the cliffs and there was a reef type thing underneath it.
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The next day when I came back, I saw a rock with shiny white/transparent crystals on it.
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There was volcaniclastic sandstone and argillite on the beach and near the coast was conglomerate and basalt rocks.