My Favourite Place – the Creek

The creek behind my house is where I go to relax and have fun. There are a lot of things that are very easily overlooked like the fish swimming through the water or the plants surrounding the water. The best thing about being down there is catching the fish with our nets and catching the crawfish with our hands. The creek has many kinds of animals and plants that live in it and surround it so there is a lot that happens in one day.

In the morning you can hear the birds chirping while they fly from tree to tree. There are little minnows swimming around in the calm cold water. The fallen tree that is used to cross the creek has dirt and moss all over it. The rocks are dispersed all over the bank of the stream and they are the perfect skipping rock because they are round and flat, Whenever they skip across the water they make little ripples in the water and make a splish splashing noise. Almost every plant that surrounds the creek is nettles so you have to be careful walking around them because if you touch them they will create a stinging pain but not all the plants are bad because there is a bunch of dandelions on the other side of the creek.

In the afternoon the bigger fish come out and swim around the sticks that have sunken to the bottom of the water. The big fish have a little hole underneath a big rock that hangs over the water and that is where they like to stay and rest so they aren’t in the sun. Every now and then there will be a deer that comes to the creek to get water and if it gets startled it darts off. There are many other animals you can find like the rat snakes and dragonflies that hang out by the dandelions on the other side of the creek. There are crawfish that dart around at the bottom of the creek and they are fun to try to catch but if you do catch one they might pinch your finger with their pinchers. In the evening the crickets start to chirp, and the fish start to go back into their dens while the frogs come out to hop around. The frogs like to go onto the banks so we try to catch them but it is hard because they are fast and slippery. At the small headland that is to the far right of the creek is where the frogs like go to eat insects and swim. Later the fireflies start to fly around, and they light up the creek. The fireflies are very easy to catch and fun to use as a lantern when you put them in jars.

Throughout one day there are many things that take place in and around the creek. The creek goes through stages throughout the day with the different animals that are there at different times. This is what makes the creek so relaxing because you can just sit there and watch what is going on at different times of the day.