BEACH BUM!!! (**Warning: picture intense)

I got to go to the beach The Beach THE BEACH!!!!!

It's been raining so much so when the sun finally came out, mum and I rushed to the beach.


Yes, STINKY free afternoon!! I love that I still get my one on one walkies with mum, afterall, I have been with mum for 7 years before the STINKSTER came.

Even tho we do live within walking distance to Kits Beach (aka. MY beach), mum prefers to drive because she says I'll have that much more energy for the beach. (shhh.... I think she's just lazy, but I really don't mind going in my SunshadeMOBILE since it gets me there that much faster!!!) That is of course, if I actually get let out of my SunshadeMOBILE.......

Let me OOOOOOOOOOOOUT!!!!


We walked along the main walkway by Vanier Park towards Kits Beach.


Took care of some very important businesses first....... yes... why must my mum be the way she is???


I was made to do some modeling before my fluffs got wet. Anxious I was, but still, I posed. It's just easier to listen when dealing with this particular trigger happy woman.




We reached the first little beach by the dock. Mum and I were the only ones there - MY beach MY beach!!!



There, I jumped for my RING!


Chased some rockies, (one of my many nicknames from mum is "Muscle Butt", do you see why?)


And um... you know.. dance out of joy!


Mum and I walked back up to the walkway and made our way towards the Dog Beach. There, I met many dogs; some got real good sniffs of my muscle butt,






Some I snuck a few good sniffs of,




There's always at least one that wants MY RING. He was the one today....





Some could careless about me or my RING, and I didn't see the logic behind that....




Some, I could careless about... perfectly logical




After my romp at the Dog Beach, we walked the main stretch of the beach. There were barely anybody there, so again, it was allllll MINE!!




I wanted to play my favourite Chase the Rock - Find the Rock game, but of course, I had to SMILE for the camera first...


rEAdY.....

HurRy!


sEt.....


go Go GOOOOOOO!


Here is me in action:

If I don't get a rockie out from the water myself, mum sometimes will drop an easy, pick-a-ble one for me so I don't get disappointed. It's not as challenging, but hey, it's still a rockie. The more it smells like mum, the more precious it is to me, too bad she isn't into rolling on rockies at the beach...... (mum: and I'm not into rolling on rocks anywhere else either, YOU do it!)

When I got tired of chasing rockies, I battled a few large sticks.


Of course, must satisfy the trigger happy woman first....



Then I got my stick...... (Oscar, I totally understand what you mean by a "performing seal". I feel this way WAY too often.)




Then came a Duck Toller.


I wanted to play with him, but I think he was more interested in my RING.


Listen to the funny noises he was making, I am sure he was a boy tho...

Just to make sure we covered the entire Kits Beach, I dragged mum along the seawall (literally) next to the Kitsilano outdoor swimming pool,

See, like this.........


I know this looks scary, but this is how I INSIST on walking along the seawall.


I took agility class when I was little, and the seawall totally reminds me of the Dogwalk. See the resemblance?



(mum: um... not really... Perfect example of her stubbornness, or my lack of leadership LOL. If I make her come down, she jumps back up. If I don't allow her to go onto the seawall, then she stops moving completely - can't go back, only forward, on the seawall.)

Don't worry, I've been doing this since I was two years old. Just look at how steady I was!!

Mum made me "WAIT" at the end so she could help me off the seawall since any kind of impact (ie, landing) to my bad elbow is bad.

So, all that work for what? Well, for this little bit of the beach of course!!!


After I have surveyed every inch of MY beach, mum and I made our way ALLLL the way back over the main beach, through the dog beach, across Vanier Park, and back to the boat launch where we started our walk from.

I was very sandy, so I went for a swim at the boat launch to get all the sand off me.


A nice roll on the sweet smelling grass is a MUST after a swim!!


And no, that's not a twig stuck to my nose from my rolling....


And no, that's not dirt on my face.....


(mum: it's goose POOOOOOOOP!!!!!)

So what do you think?

AM I THE PERFECT BEACH BUM OR WHAT???