at the utter edge of the great big barrier reef there was an old raft covered in moss on anchor. from afar you might have found it abandoned there for many many years, old and rotten, having had better times long before....
it had been out there, exposed to rain, burning sunshine and salty water for years.
it was right there, softly bumping up and down with the waves, giving the impression that it once must have been on wild adventures on the great big deep blue see- but that was the only sign of life you could find... the raft looked more like a dead body, having been lifted up to the surface of the ocean, who didn't want to hold him buried any longer, but give him free...
until that very day when marla the dove flew past the great barrier reef and, right over the raft, dropped her most precious white and fluffy little ball....
so, this is, where our story begins...
who could have thought, that such a moist white ball carried in itself the future of our little raft... well, so let me tell you one after another....
the moment the ball landed right in the middle of the raft, nothing changed. the raft was stille there, rotten, abandonned... just that... now.... it had a little white spot on it...
a spot that after 2hours and 93minutes turned out to become a lovely big blooming immensely huge-rising rapidly growning baobab-tree.
it carried fruit, it offered shadow, it bore life in itself, birds nested in its branches and.... all of a sudden, as if scared, thousands and thousands of butterflies left their shelters under the big leaves of the tree and started a beautiful never seen butterfly dance, a choreography no dancer had seen before, perfection to detail... a buzzing and flattering and humming noise, shimmering wings of uncountable shapes and colors...
so much life hadn't be seen over the surface of the great barrier reef before.
the abandonned raft had become the home of a whole new little paradise that now attracted someone's attention...
as you know, every coral reef is organized as a monarchy, where a dignified king or a dignified queen, or both of them, rule over the coral kingdom to preserve peace and harmony and security for all the creatures living there.
and so it was in the great barrier reef, too... and because the reef was great and big, the royal family was a very dignified and mighty family.
they had a little daughter called marley the mermaid. she had lovely red curly hair and eyes as turquoise as the sea and coral coloured lips that looked so sweet, that every here and then little fish that were extremely brave, swam by and stole little kisses from her...
marley was a very curios little mermaid, and her favourite place to play was the edge of the reef, where our raft had been abandonned many years ago. when she swam by her place, she noticed that something must have happened to the raft, cause now it cast many different shaped shadows... so marley, quick as a flash, and courageous and curious as she was, jumped out of the water, onto the raft... she saw the beautiful ever growing baobab tree with all those butterflies and the humming and buzzing and shimmering, and gazed at it in awe....
well, as you might know, a raft is not a very stable carrier, and weights on a raft need to be balanced out... and as the tree was right in the middle of the raft, and now marley was on the right side of the raft, the raft got out of balance, and slowly, very slowly but unstoppable by the little mermaid, who anxiously tried to stop the raft from tilting, turned up at the opposite corner and then bumped into the water, upside down.
pah.
well....
ooohhh....
from the outside things were now back to normal again. all you could see was the same old raft, abandonned, rotten, covered in moss...
but from underwater....
there was a whole new flora and fauna growing there, upside down...
the butterflies proved themsemselves once more being quick-change artists and started to breathe underwater. they enjoyed their new living space and from that day on, every school of fish regularly made their excursion to the funny two-sided dead- alive raft to have philosophy lessons...
and marley....
well....
marley fell in love with a beautiful little monkey that had lived on the tree, and with the tilting now had become a little half monkey- half fish creature, a mer-monkey...
so marley and the mer-monkey and the dead-alive raft lived happily ever after.
it had been out there, exposed to rain, burning sunshine and salty water for years.
it was right there, softly bumping up and down with the waves, giving the impression that it once must have been on wild adventures on the great big deep blue see- but that was the only sign of life you could find... the raft looked more like a dead body, having been lifted up to the surface of the ocean, who didn't want to hold him buried any longer, but give him free...
until that very day when marla the dove flew past the great barrier reef and, right over the raft, dropped her most precious white and fluffy little ball....
so, this is, where our story begins...
who could have thought, that such a moist white ball carried in itself the future of our little raft... well, so let me tell you one after another....
the moment the ball landed right in the middle of the raft, nothing changed. the raft was stille there, rotten, abandonned... just that... now.... it had a little white spot on it...
a spot that after 2hours and 93minutes turned out to become a lovely big blooming immensely huge-rising rapidly growning baobab-tree.
it carried fruit, it offered shadow, it bore life in itself, birds nested in its branches and.... all of a sudden, as if scared, thousands and thousands of butterflies left their shelters under the big leaves of the tree and started a beautiful never seen butterfly dance, a choreography no dancer had seen before, perfection to detail... a buzzing and flattering and humming noise, shimmering wings of uncountable shapes and colors...
so much life hadn't be seen over the surface of the great barrier reef before.
the abandonned raft had become the home of a whole new little paradise that now attracted someone's attention...
as you know, every coral reef is organized as a monarchy, where a dignified king or a dignified queen, or both of them, rule over the coral kingdom to preserve peace and harmony and security for all the creatures living there.
and so it was in the great barrier reef, too... and because the reef was great and big, the royal family was a very dignified and mighty family.
they had a little daughter called marley the mermaid. she had lovely red curly hair and eyes as turquoise as the sea and coral coloured lips that looked so sweet, that every here and then little fish that were extremely brave, swam by and stole little kisses from her...
marley was a very curios little mermaid, and her favourite place to play was the edge of the reef, where our raft had been abandonned many years ago. when she swam by her place, she noticed that something must have happened to the raft, cause now it cast many different shaped shadows... so marley, quick as a flash, and courageous and curious as she was, jumped out of the water, onto the raft... she saw the beautiful ever growing baobab tree with all those butterflies and the humming and buzzing and shimmering, and gazed at it in awe....
well, as you might know, a raft is not a very stable carrier, and weights on a raft need to be balanced out... and as the tree was right in the middle of the raft, and now marley was on the right side of the raft, the raft got out of balance, and slowly, very slowly but unstoppable by the little mermaid, who anxiously tried to stop the raft from tilting, turned up at the opposite corner and then bumped into the water, upside down.
pah.
well....
ooohhh....
from the outside things were now back to normal again. all you could see was the same old raft, abandonned, rotten, covered in moss...
but from underwater....
there was a whole new flora and fauna growing there, upside down...
the butterflies proved themsemselves once more being quick-change artists and started to breathe underwater. they enjoyed their new living space and from that day on, every school of fish regularly made their excursion to the funny two-sided dead- alive raft to have philosophy lessons...
and marley....
well....
marley fell in love with a beautiful little monkey that had lived on the tree, and with the tilting now had become a little half monkey- half fish creature, a mer-monkey...
so marley and the mer-monkey and the dead-alive raft lived happily ever after.
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