The Adventures of Miss Luna

Where I live, winter is a really good time to go to the beach. When we have a really nice clear day with blue skies and no wind, it’s the best place to be!

Especially when there are lots of new doggies to play with! I like the big boy dogs the best.

It can get a bit lonely if there are no other doggies around to play with. When me and Kaya used to come to the beach, we’d just play with each other! But now I have to make new friends every time.

Mum and Dad say that it’s been good for me though, because I have to think for myself and not just follow Kaya everywhere! They said that it’s made me lots more confident – so I guess that’s one good thing!

There are lots of things to do at the beach even without doggy friends anyway – one of my favourites is chasing sticks!

I found one of those super fast doggies – Mum said they are called ‘greyhounds’ – they are great to chase! They are always faster than me though, they can sure run! Mum only got one pic of this one cos he was running so fast, he was out of sight in no time.

Ooh! Is that a potential new friend I spot over there?

Yep, sure is! Us big doggies always seem to spot each other from a long way away, and we always go to say hello!

This is Loki, a Great Dane just like me! Her colour is called ‘merle’ – isn’t her colour pretty? Lots of interesting spots and patches!

I wanted to play chasing games with her.. but I think she was a bit scared of me!

I chased her around a bit…

But then she ran back to her Mum and Dad.

I really liked Loki’s Mum, she was nice and handed me a big shell that I was having trouble picking up – it’s a bit hard without thumbs sometimes.

She also ran around and played with us heaps – I love it when people do that!

Most people are too scared because they think we will knock them over, but Loki’s Mum wasn’t scared at all (probably from playing with Loki – she’s bigger than me!) so she was cool to hang out with!

More beach adventures to come!

Something else I love to do at the beach is digging. Especially when I have a stick and I’ve finished chasing it for a while – I try and bury it so no other doggies can steal it away!

It’s actually harder than it looks, most of the time I end up digging the stick out of the hole and throwing it somewhere behind me. Sometimes it takes me a while to find it again.

When I’m digging, my ears fall down all funny so when I look up again, sometimes they go like this.

Mum and Dad laugh but I don’t think it makes me look funny? Just happy!

Next we decided to walk up to the dunes. On the way, I met a new friend!

Shhh don’t tell Mum and Dad, but I have a bit of a ‘thing’ for big manly male dogs. I love playing and flirting with them! My best doggy friends are always the boys.

Awww where’d he go?

Never mind, onward and upward! To the dunes! Mum likes to take photos up here, cos she can stand lower when she’s taking photos and make it so the big blue sky is behind me. I think it brings out my lovely blue fur, wouldn’t you agree?

The best thing is being released from my poses, so I can race down the dune!

Mum says she must feed me too much kangaroo, cos I am starting to look like one.

I like the dunes too because it means I can stand up nice and high and look over everything that’s happening on the beach. And perve on the boy doggies.

Dad wanted to pose with me so I agreed.

Then Mum wanted a turn too! Wow, how popular am I!

I should start charging! This one’s gotta be worth at least an extra raw egg in my fishy breakfast tomorrow.

Dad held onto the camera and kept taking pictures of me. He’s much better at photo taking now, Mum likes to think it’s her influence but I think it’s just easy to take photos of me cos I’m such a good poser.

After lots of posing, I was kinda over it, so I made sure Dad knew that enough was enough!

Hope you enjoyed my beach adventures! Love and licks, Luna xxxooo

So I guess you all want to see my new talent huh? Well, you know how I am such a water baby and have been since I was really little? We decided to take it a bit further and do ‘water launching’!

First, I went over the other side of the shallow water with Dad.

Then Mum called me back, and I ran and launched myself into the water to get to her!

They decided that I didn’t make a big enough splash, so we tried something different. Dad told me to sit and stay (which I am very, very good at) and then he walked back over to where Mum was, leaving me sitting there all alone!

That was more like it! Now I had a big reason to want to get back over to them with both of them on the other side, I made a BIG splash this time!

Now I was really getting the hang of it, making a big splash is FUN! Check it out, you can hardly see me at all in this one.

Dad eventually just worked out if that they threw a stick over the other side of the water, I’d go get it and then race back. Means he didn’t have to wade through the cold water, he was happy about that. Bit of a wuss, I reckon.

I looove splashing around in the water…

Here’s an especially big splash that Mum managed to get – almost there…

And SPLASH!!

Pretty cool huh? I really love the water (can’t you tell?)

When I was done water launching, Mum decided she wanted a model pic of me so we went through the water to the side (the things Mum will do for a nice photo).

Part 3 coming soon, stay tuned!

It’s been raining lots and lots here lately, but today when we woke up, it was all sunshine and blue skies. A perfect day to go to the beach! We made sure it was low tide cos there is much more beach to run around on when it’s low.

At first, there didn’t seem to be many people there.

But turns out, everyone was over playing in some shallow water left over by the outgoing tide.

We went over and checked it out.

And I made some friends with the other doggies hanging out in the pools too. Most of the friends I make are shorter than me, so when they are swimming, I am still standing on the bottom!

Even though it’s winter here now, some people were still swimming. The water was kinda cold, but not that bad!

Here’s me hanging out with my new gang!

I love making new friends at the beach!

Make sure you keep watching for our next blog post, I have a new trick I can’t wait to show everyone!