Weekend means walks (and swims!)

I can’t believe that we’re at the weekend again, this year is speeding past, must be all the fun we’re having planning what we’re doing this year with Susie-Belle and Renae.

Talking of walks and beaches, we’re heading off for the day tomorrow to Hayling Island  to meet up with a whole gang of schnauzers and owners for a toddle along the beach. This is the first beach we took Susie-Belle to back in early September when she’d been with us for a week or so (I thought it was Weymouth, but going back through my photos, I’d forgotten Hayling was even earlier). It was quite a bleak day if I remember and the beach was windswept and deserted. I was determined to get in a sea swim having driven all the way to the coast I couldn’t possibly not get my feet wet at the very least.

Susie-Belle wasn’t that impressed by me getting in the water, she must have wondered what odd kind of human activity she was being introduced to, come to think of it, even many of my human friends think the same about my love of outdoor swimming. Renae was even less impressed as I’d spent the summer trying to get her to enjoy swimming and failing miserably as she became the swiftest dodger of me if there was even the faintest hint she might be getting her paws wet out on a walk.