Dune jumping at Jockey’s Ridge by Alec Thompson

The Tickle Sticks decided to go to Jockey’s Ridge for the day. I brought my football to play with when we got there. The ride was short and we got there in 20 minutes. We got to the visitor center and we got to the dunes and started to climb them. It was hard work climbing them and many of us fell down on the way up. We were all ok though. We climbed to the top and it was a great view of the ocean. Mark said to jump off the dune so we could take a photo of the group. We all jumped and landed softly on the sand. We took one more photo of us and moved on to a new dune. Mark, Mitch, and I played with the football. Mitch threw some great passes. One headed for the edge of the dune and I had it in my grasp and missed. I fell down the dune and caught up with the ball and stopped it. There was a problem with falling down a sandy dune. I had sand everywhere in my clothes and my mouth. It was really sandy. I was ok though. I walked back up the dune and showed Mark and Mitch where I caught up with the ball and they said good job. After we played for a while we went down the dune and found a phone in the sand. We picked it up and called the owner. He said to meet us back at the visitor center in half and hour. We walked to the original dune where we started and the phone rang three more times. It was really funny. We took one more picture of all of us jumping of the biggest dune and we all wiped out in very funny ways. We grabbed all our stuff and started walking back. We made it back to the visitor center and gave the phone back to the owner. Then I realized I left my football at the dune. I didn’t care for it so I left it there. We talked to the visitor center secretary for a while. We got some free stuff from her. We got a sticker and some sun block for our lips. We went back to camp and showered to get all the sand off. It was a very fun day in the Outer Banks and a great last expedition.