Friday, April 2, 2010

The beach - yay!


Just had my first trip to the ocean at Dewey Beach, DE. It's a lovely stretch of shoreline with safe beaches, and best of all it's really pet friendly. In the summer, dogs can go on the beach every morning till 10 AM, then again in the afternoons after 5 PM. But right now, there are no restrictions so it was perfect for my first trip to the shore.

I was a bit nervous at first with those waves that kept chasing me, so I stayed very close to Della.


She had her hip waders on so she could walk out in the ocean with me which made it much less scary. In about five minutes, I was ready to roll!


It took me a while to figure out that I didn't have to run away when the waves came after me.


But then I realized that I just had to face right into them and then jump over the wave as it came by.


Here I am just walking around waiting for the next one to jump.


When Della thought I was getting too far away, she called me back, and I always raced in as fast as I could as I've learned that I get tons of praise when I do that.


After playing in the waves for a while, we walked along the beach and I encountered the strangest thing I've ever seen...


At first I thought it was dead as it just lay there while I sniffed it all over. Then its feet started wiggling and I jumped back, quite scared....



.... but then I got brave again and sniffed it all over once more and decided it was pretty boring as it just lay there.

Then I discovered the sand dunes! They are so much fun to climb on.


I loved running across the top of the dunes...


.... and clambering up and down the hilly bits...


The recent storms moved a lot of sand where sand shouldn't be.... this is supposed to be a walking ramp down to the shore. I'm sniffing the hand rail!



.... then back in the waves.



Adele took me for some walks, and she had to keep a death grip on the leash as I kept trying to get to the photographer.





I loved meeting all the little kids on the beach.... I can kiss them without jumping up!


He wasn't expecting such a big kiss from me!


The waves got pretty big on the last day, so I was back on my leash to keep me safe.


But I got brave again very quickly.



I love charging at the waves and jumping them.


I also liked drinking the salty water - not a good idea.



I love the beach more than anywhere else I've ever been!


And I hope next time it will be calm enough for me to swim.

Here's a picture of the beautiful sunset on the last night there....





















1 comment:

  1. Great blog Della....looks like you all had a great time and weather cleared up nicely!

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