Seagull

The Seagull appears in The Long Haul as a minor antagonist. It was often used in the promos and trailers for the book.



Story
Greg and his family are driving when they reach a long bridge. Frank Heffley, who is scared of bridges, hands the wheel over to Rodrick. While Rodrick is driving the car, Greg is eating a packet of cheese curls. Seeing the seagull, he throws a cheese curl at it and it catches it in midair. But it then flies on top of the car and asks for more. Greg tries to give it another, but the seagull falls down into the car, since the sunroof was open. It wanted more, but since Greg didn't want to give, it got angry and tried to steal the packet. There was a tug of war between Greg and the Seagull over the packet, but Greg loses causing all the chips to fall and spread all over the car.