I have been going to Black Bank Beach every summer for my whole life. It is an amazing beach off the west coast of Newfoundland in Bay St. George. It is a beautiful, unknown beach. It is full of wildlife.

My family has a home only five minutes from the beach. The view from the top of the cliff is a sight I will never forget. The view is from the top of the thirty foot sand dune out to the sea with the smell of grass, sand and salt water. It is peaceful at its finest. After breathing in the salt air, I would jump down and run straight from the top and go straight into the sandbars at low tide. I then crash into the waves when the tide is high. Sometimes when I looked further down the beach it looked as if everyone from the small town was swimming.

The black sand on the beach is one of the most unique things I have seen. I have spent a long time of my life on the beach and I have done and seen many things. I have seen ospreys flying in the distance, heard about plovers which are endangered birds, and hauled a lobster trap two kilometers from our cottage with my dad. I have almost been hit by a dirtbike on a dune that was 2 stories high. I have made art using sand and swam as far as I wanted. All of Black Bank Beach, from the dunes to the old bridge, will be forever a part of me.