Shark Or Seal?

by Bree Whalen
(Long Beach CA, USA)

A bunch of friends and I got together and were waiting for this wave to come. I was sitting on my board and i looked at the water and for some reason it looked grey. My friend Sarah screamed "SHARK!"

My first reaction was to get on the board. I sat on my knees and i was surrounded but this big grey thing.

Then about two minutes later it bumped into my board, bringing it up almost a foot out of the water.

The animal, was definitely grey.

I started screaming because 1). I didn't know what it was 2). If it was a shark, i was out of luck.

Then it was quiet and still,


And a seal popped out of the water and we just started to laugh.

To this day, we don't know if it was the seal or the shark.