Water's Rage

By Daniel

Hearing the sound of crashing waves got my heart in a frenzy. I couldn't believe I was doing this. I was yet to see the rapids but I knew they were around the corner. A flood of adrenaline got my knees shaking in my little kayak. The kayak we were in gave me the security of skydiving with an umbrella to slow me down. I looked at the sky and then at the red, Snake River Canyon. My eyes drifted to the calm brown water, until my dad snapped my back into my blow up two man kayak.

"Belnap Falls is around the corner! Ready?" My dad shouted with excitement and fear.

"No." I softly whispered.

Time froze. Coming around the corner I could see the 8 to 12 foot waves and hear them rumble and scream an invitation to death. The mist refreshed my cracked dry face and snapped me back into realization that I was about to be thrown into a death pit. I clenched my paddles until my knuckles ached. We dropped into the first rapid. I was thrown around like a doll. A giant wave came curling over my head. I was soaking wet and my vision blurred. I tried to wipe my eyes but in doing so I would lose my paddle.

We were thrown into a monster of a wave. SPLASH!! It released all it's furry and crashed against our kayak so hard I almost flew out. The force was pushing us into the side of the canyon. We were forced to paddle so hard that I was shaking. Rocks and other raft popping death traps were barely poking out of the water to try to hide from us.

We barely missed a knifelike rock and doing so put us face to face with the biggest wave yet. It roared with the might of a train. We approached it and were forced downward by another wave. Now we were in a giant wave. It shot up over my head and cast a giant shadow over me. It was like a cartoon when something really bad is about to happen, and then everything stops. It hung there suspended in midair. It then released all it's might and came crashing down on us. It felt like getting punched in the jaw.

The sound stopped and the water was as still as glass.

"I DID IT!" I said standing up and shouting. At that instant our kayak hit a ripple sideways and flipped. While sitting in the water enjoying the refreshment, I took note to the fact that I went into a roller coaster lacking a harness, and came out alive to tell the story.