How kapiti island came to be

The Giant and the Sand. By Anais Robbins

Have you ever wondered what that big island of the coast of waikanae, you do well you should’nt because it hasnt been made yet! Thats right you have all gone back in time!

We start our story in a place that we call Waikanae. In Waikanae there was a group of little kids who go around the small town on the coast and try to get people to help make the new island they made up. The kids called it Kapiti island, all the adults and other kids said there was absouloutly no way that someone could make an island but the group of kids did not belive them.

One day the group of kids were making models of the island in the sand down on the beach when a big cloud came out of no where and a big wave of wind swooped them up into the clouds!

THUMP! They landed with a big thump on the ground. A big giant stood in front of them. ‘I can help you’ said the giant. ‘Iknow how you can make kapiti island, go to the beach and throw as much sand as you can at the sky, you think it will fall back down but it wont i will catch it and make  the island then i will drop it down onto the water.

So the kids did just that and a day after they threw the sand a big island came down and landed on the water. It was amazing it’s green bushes and trees look like lime popsticile sticks, the fresh air an wind rushes down your face like spears in the lovley morning breese. Animals prowling through the bushes to catch there prey And lovely birds playing in the the summer breeze in the after noon. Steep rocks crashing down into the fierce waves is the only sound because up in the trees the birds are sleeping

Down on the ground the wild cats are chasing,stalking and playing in the dark silent night with the glowing moon to gide them. Anyway that is how kapiti island was made…

Oh one more thing the reason it is called Kapiti island is because the leader of the group of kids is a little boy called Kapiti Graham, and his name will be in the New Zealand history book for years to come.