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    Yarra
    Yarra
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    Yarra

    By Suscelah Fonseka

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    This is the story of the trials and tribulations of Yarra the beautiful Reef Mermaid who lived in the heart of The Great Barrier Reef.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse UK
    Release dateJul 9, 2013
    ISBN9781481796057
    Yarra
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    Suscelah Fonseka

    The author has spent many years in Educational Television. ‘Shades of Dawn’ was her first novel which was published in the United States of America. ‘ Yarra’ is her second novel. The author currently lives in Malaysia.

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      Yarra - Suscelah Fonseka

      2013 by Suscelah Fonseka. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. Names, characters and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locations is entirely coincidental.

      Published by AuthorHouse 07/02/2013

      ISBN: 978-1-4817-9604-0 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4817-9605-7 (e)

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Contents

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Chapter 12

      Chapter 13

      Chapter 14

      Chapter 15

      Chapter 16

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      To The Oceans Of The World.

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      Chapter 1

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      A Cyclone had just hit Northern Queensland. Wind velocity was125km/h. The furious winds had caused destruction to everything in its path. It had destroyed fields of crops, uprooted trees, damaged cars and wrecked homes. The cyclone had caused a surge of ocean water to wash up beaches and swamp low lying houses and severely batter moored boats. The cyclone passed the coast at the northern beaches of Cairns causing structural damage and severe flooding. Wind gusts up to 100 knots were recorded and the peak wave was 13.5 meters at the recording station. Reported loss of crop and infrastructure damage was estimated at 150 million U.S. dollars.

      Kane had just flown in to Northern Queensland. There was devastation all around. There seemed to be no safe refuge from the awesome powers of nature. He had flown for 24 hours and more all the way from America imagining and almost feeling the warm sunshine, imagining the clear blue skies, and the depths of the blue ocean. What greeted him however were dark angry skies, and the fury of the winds. Kane was disappointed.

      All through the next day the skies remained overcast but the sea appeared calm. There were people from all over the world Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Argentina, Ethiopia, Greece, Spain and many from Australia on the fast speed boat ‘The Reef Bullet’. The journey started out smooth but soon the sea got turbulent with wind gusts up to 85 knots /h and the peak wave measurement being 12.4meters. The boat began to rock. The waves were getting bigger and bigger as they went further out into the open sea. There were times that the waves washed over their boat. As they went further out to sea there was a sudden calm.

      Their first stop was Green Island. There they got into a glass bottom boat. Due to the rough seas the water was murky. They saw schools of fish and a variety of coral but they were all veiled in brown as the sea bed had been disturbed. Kane then decided to go to the outer platform. There he hired diving gear, was given all the necessary instructions and the necessary precautions that he should take while in those waters.

      He dived into the deep blue ocean, inspired by his love for the ocean and its creatures. Here he could really see the majestic beauty of the corals waving in the waters below. The coral were in all forms and colours. There were the different species of fish parading their colors—blue, yellow, mottled orange, black with white spots, yellows with black stripes, the pale blue stingray, tortoises, schools of dolphins in the blue beyond, whales and the much feared sharks. He had been swimming a while when all of a sudden he saw a stream of light coming through a crack in the fossilized wall of the Great Barrier Reef.

      Kane swam towards the light and as he came closer he realized that it was coming from a long and dark endless corridor leading to a tunnel. He decided to follow the light. He then entered the corridor and swam to the entrance of the tunnel. As he swam into the tunnel he seemed to have set off an alarm somewhere. Suddenly there was a lot of activity. He could hear sounds. Out of nowhere schools of killer whales, and sharks had appeared. Kane tried to stay in the shadows but she called out in her soft and beautiful voice:

      Who is there?

      Terrified he swam into the spot light. Immediately a school of killer whales swam towards him. They were followed by the huge man eating sharks.

      The beautiful voice came on again.

      Stop—he has come as a friend.

      Immediately the whales and the sharks moved away and only then did Kane see the beautiful Reef Mermaid in all her splendor and glory. She had beautiful long hair the colour of bronze and gold, doleful blue eyes, the colour of the ocean depths, a fair complexion and a slender beautiful graceful body of a mermaid. She called out to Kane in an almost inaudible whisper:

      "Come I am happy for some company.

      Who are you?"

      I am Kane. I have flown a long way from home to visit The Great Barrier Reef.

      Then I must show you around my kingdom. said Yarra the Reef Mermaid.

      She showed Kane her kingdom below the sea. It ran from tunnel to tunnel, each one better than the other. In the first chamber were all the tiny fish,

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