Weekend outing

After the initially cranky husband incident the day actually turned out awesome!

We packed the car, grabbed the dogs and took off for Fort De Soto park.

Our first stop was the off-leash dog park, were Bob and Stan got to run around, sniff and piss to their hearts content.

Then we drove down to that nice picnic area we found on a previous visit, but this time we hiked into the thick mangroves along the shoreline, and it paid off big time: we arrived at a private perfect little beach with two picnic tables off in the shade. Could not have been any better! And except for a canoe and a fisherman, there were no other people around. Unusually enough, there were even palm trees ON the beach, so we leashed the dogs up to these and just enjoyed ourselves.

Sarah and Ken went exploring and found all kinds of crabs and other sea creatures. We enjoyed our picnic of sandwiches, potato salad, watermelon and grapes and then we drove back to the dog park to go down to the dog BEACH.

SO MANY DOGS! It was almost surreal how many dogs of all kinds of shapes and forms were running around on the beach and swimming in the water. Bob and Stan really seemed to have a great time, and both of them actually got to try surfing for the first time, on Sarah's boogie board. They did really good! I sure wish I would have had my camera with me, but it was too hot and too sandy anyway...

What amazed me the most is that I did not see a single aggression anywhere on that beach. All those dogs and just happy yappy all around. And there were quite a lot of larger breeds such as Dobermans and Pit Bulls.

The only "attacks" were off wet dogs launching themselves onto people for a little kissing. There was this one big yellow lab pup that seemed to think my lap was his personal hangout, and he was very sandy and wet, so not exactly cozy:-)!

After our 4 hours at the park we drove home with two very happy but tired dogs... A great day!