Okay, so not really. In fact it was a rather nice day, so nice and warm that we headed out to the beach! After a lazy morning for Anthony to enjoy not having to get up to go to work, we headed out in the early afternoon to a wide open field that we checked out before in the Altona Costal Park area. We wanted to let the kids run and burn off some energy.
Once we get there and let the kids run around a bit, Anthony spots the beach area and we were both surprised as to how expansive the beach area was considering the last time we came the water was much closer inland. So we headed out that direction and walk out to the beach to find that it was low tide thereby exposing acres of white soft sand with sections of very shallow water. Although warm that day, it was much cooler near the water where the wind was whipping plus I didn't have sandals on unlike Anthony. So he takes the kids to the waters edge, about 300 meters out, while I stayed on the last bit of dry sand before the shallow pools became a barrierr.
The kids LOVED it! They ran like they were nuts across soft sand and shallow pools. We chatted up an elderly gentlemen and he mentioned that it's like this everyday during low tide. Being it was Christmas, there was only 4 or 5 other dogs out there but he says there's usually quite a few dogs and people out there.
The water was so clear and shallow enough in many of the areas for our low clearance dogs to walk or briefly dog paddle over plus the deeper areas become a natural barrier to preventing Senna from running too far away.
While we still had the hired car, we agree, we'll be back out here!
After heading back, later than expected, I started Christmas dinner which ultimately meant a very late dinner, but we had a Christmas dinner nonetheless. Being just for the two of us...we'll be having leftovers for a while.
- julie
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