The Spirit Of Verona - Page 25

THE SPIRIT OF VERONA
Author: E. Verna Turner
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Within 5 year period the Russo family, the Keeping's, the Torres, the Evangelista's, all of them in the island were able to adapt the environment which they think is favorable to their existence. Adaptation is never that easy for them at first but they managed for their own good. Who wont be? The island is such an ideal place. Almost perfect, very rich in natural resources. The climate is splendidly awesome! They never get sick. They are always happy, few quarrels that they always able to resolve. The children grew up to be who they really are, respectful of their elders, strong-willed but with fear in God, courteous and polite. Resourceful, smart and skilled. Surely it was blessing in disguised that the climate is favorable and which never harm them in anyway. There are only two season warm and not so warm. It never rain and that's amazingly good.  Similar feature of an amazonian jungle like they have there showers can't be felt that much in the secluded area. There's no storm. The last storm was when only their first day in that mysterious island.

There is so much sunshine and the water from the ocean is lukewarm but the lagoon and river remained cool. The coolest temperature ever.The air is fresh because of the abundance of greenery and lush vegetation including the tall trees, bushes, and herbs plus the coconut groves whose palms sway gracefully with the wind. The right ventilation, rather well balanced ventilation of air is felt most of the time.

Joselito, Jolina, Melinda and Joseph gathered bunch of firewood. Mila and Tamara  got  their paddles and ride on their bamboo raft paddling and sailing smoothly to the ocean. Their raft has a sail and a small bamboo house like an outpost. It was cute. They were 100 ft. away from the shore when Eric saw them and he too ride the banca (canoe) and as fast as he could paddled his canoe to  join the sisters.

"What are you doing? What are you planning to do? " Eric asked the  two sisters.

"Oh, we'll gather some oysters and abalones." Mila told Eric.

"Yeah, there are clusters of oysters on this spot and maybe those oysters already have pearls inside." Tamara  said with a smile.

"And what are you doing with those pearls? " Eric asked again.

"Secret!!!!!" the two girls jumped and dive at the same time on the clear blue waters of the ocean. So pristine clean and clear. It was inviting.

"You girls are so secretive." Eric blurted. He waited for a while and when the sisters come up to the bamboo raft they have lots of oysters in their handwoven basket. But for the girls they are not enough and because they are unopen yet they don't know how many have pearls inside. So they dive down again to gather more oysters. Eric doesn't like being left behind so he too dive deep down the ocean and underneath were too many sea creatures that he never could imagine are there. Even the ocean is filled with water resources, so rich and so beautiful there. Variety of colors and multitude of fish, angelfish, swordfish, mackerels and tuna, small fish and big fish, shellfish of different kind and species, so much seaweeds too and corals. Then he realized he is fixated on creatures that they don't need for now he was seen harvesting oysters helping the sisters. They only stop until they reached more than  hundred oysters  and they started opening the shells one by one. They had wonderful conversation while opening the shells and found so much precious shiny pearls filling up their handwoven basket.

It was before sunset that the three teenagers decided it's time to go home and be with their respective family.