I went walking yesterday with mum and her little sniffer dog. Though this time she was a runner. And she loves it.
We parked near the beach. We put her lead on because that is what you need to do there in that particular spot. We walked on a concrete path with yellow lines on each side of the path, maybe this helps to see better in the dark of you walking on it. I don't know. This path leads to the beach. There is water on both sides of it. There wasn't a lot of people here but we did spot some swimming in the water on the left of us. We walked to where the path merged into sand. Then walked on that for a while further towards the main beach and the ocean. The was a sand dune we needed to walk down then we found ourselves in the beach. Mum had been there before but this was my first time. There weren't any people on the beach either. There was a whole lot of large boulder size rocks going out into the water in a line. I don't know why they were there. Man placed I believe. We placed our gear near a rock that was over hanging just a bit ,so there was a bit of shade. Sniffer dog blonged herself down in that itty bitty shade bit. She did look hot. We gave her some water, we bought along a little plastic tub for her. We didn't stay there for long. We took our shoes off and headed to the waters edge. Sniffer dog no longer had a lead on, she was free and walked in the water some with mum mostly . The water felt so wet, not really cold though today. But nice. We walked along for a little while, I looked down and saw some shells, some broken ones, some halved pippy shells and some ones that looked like fingernails. As well as some beach pebbles. Mum told sniffer dog to run, she didn't run. So I started to jog along a little and soon the little dog bolted along way past me. She was so fast for such a cute little dog with short legs. She came back to us. Then mum decided to jog some too and she did the same running game. Then mum stopped and then doggie bolted back to me after mum told her to. The distance was maybe 15 metres or so. She was so much loving it I could tell. We played this game with her until she really looked like she had had enough. It was just fun seeing a little dog enjoying something so simple as running.
After that we walked to get out gear which was shoes, dog lead, plastic water dish and a bottle of water.
We walked back another way further up, up some more sand dunes which had drift wood scattered around in the sand. Quite a lot actually. And burnt wood too, we guessed someone had lit small personal fires there. The sand was feeling very hot on our feet at this point. We couldn't get our shoes on quick enough. I stood on some beach type grass. Not much of it but enough to relieve the heat of the sand. Mum had easier shoes to put on so she was much quicker.
We headed to that water that was on one side of the path. The path we had set out on in the beginning. It was here that sniffer dog went for her first swim. Dog paddle and all. She stood barking at the edge first. Then went in. Mum had already gone in ahead. All three of us went in. It wasn't that deep. But deep enough that doggie couldn't walk in it. I happened to look down and saw tiny light grey fish darting in there. We got out soon and made our way back up to that path. And continued along. We ended up having a picnic a short time later. So thankfull I had the opportunity to hang out with mum and her little sniffer and runner dog
