If I were stuck on an island

I woke up on the cliffs of the sea. I looked around, and what I saw, rocks, crevices, and sea. I got up and went for a walk to see some of the people that lived on this island. First, I went to the cliffs and the beach. I looked around and saw nobody. It was like I had amnesia. I finished looking around the island and found nobody. The island was deserted.

I tried to think of things that I needed and how I would get them, but the thought of being stranded on the island just came into my mind. "Keep thinking, keep thinking", I said to myself. Finally I came up with some ideas. First, I would go to the shore and try to get some mussels, second I would try to find a spring, and third, I would make a shelter.

Soon, I set off to do my tasks. Finding food and water was easy, but shelter was hard. I had to gather wood, find a place that is sheltered from the wind, and make furniture. I took me from sunrise to sundown to find enough wood, so I stored it and went to sleep. The next day I set out for a location. I found a few places. One was in a cornered cove, one was near the main harbor, (how I knew it was a harbor was that it had remains of docks) and the last one was near a wild dogs cave. I picked the one near the harbor, in case a ship came to get me.

In a fortnight, I had a shelter. I started to get lonely, so I found some kelp and some old skins on the beach and made a teddy bear. For the next few days, my routine was the same, get up, eat, get food and water, and spend the rest of the day free. Usually I would spend most of my free time on the cliff, watching for a ship to come and take me home. I was quite bored until one day my dream came true. I saw a shadowed figure of a boat in the water. It came into the harbor faster than I thought. Soon the ship and I were both ready.

When I landed in San Francisco, I was so happy I almost knocked one of the ship's crew over. I lived happily ever after.

The End

(By Sam-who read Island of the Blue Dolphins this week.)