Matteo tames the Sea

The beach in front the Club Med resort soon became Matteo's favourite playground. Matteo has always been in awe of the sea, and had barely dared to even dip a toe up to that point. I think he always found thrilling the notion of flirting with the lapping waves, but when invited to cross the Rubicon, he would firmly turn one down.
I should have recorded the time and day when he decided that the ocean was no more than a lavish over-sized pool, with the added-value innovation of smooth, mellifluous undulations...