Personal Narrative: Miromar Lakes

Miromar Lakes located in Fort Myers, Florida, it was voted the number one gated community in America! That’s where I stayed over my spring break! My aunt lives in the community, so we stayed with her. While we were there we did some amazing things. One of the activities we did was parasailing. I parasailed with my mother and sister. Parasailing is when you’re in a harness connected to a parachute, which is also connected to a boat. When the boat speeds up, you’re lifted up into the sky. While we were up there we saw a Cow-shoe Stingray! From the top view of the ocean the water seemed aquamarine rather than blue. In the beginning my sister didn't want to do it, but once it was over she wanted to do it again. While on our trip we also got to paddleboard and kayak. At first I didn’t want to paddleboard, so I kayaked with my sister. Later, I switched to paddle boarding, it was much easier than I …show more content…
First, we went to Captiva Island, which is off of the Florida Gulf Coast. My sister and I love to collect seashells and swim. While we swam in the warm ocean water we would stepped on seashells to stop them from getting caught in the mighty wave current, then we picked them up. We gathered many beautiful seashells on Captive. We also went to Naples Beach, which that water felt colder than Captiva. Something I enjoyed was that the sand felt warm on my toes. Lastly, we traveled to Fort Myers Beach. That beach smelled gross! Since the wind was very chilly that day, we stayed for five minutes and then left. One night we went out to eat at a burger place where we could construct your own burger or sandwich. They had the sweetest tomatoes, the juiciest burgers, and the hottest Chipotle sauce. Later, we played Bocce Ball. You have two teams, one team chucks a light white ball somewhere on the court. Both teams try to throw their set of balls closest to the white one. My mother, aunt and myself were on a team , we won of