Marley's "ME" Day

Marley and I spent some special alone time recently. We left Jasper at home with Daddy and headed off for the beach.

There are three beaches we love to go to all along the same headland. On the one side is the open ocean - a surf beach complete with surf club and all those lovely alfresco cafes. Walking along from there it corners into a bay and that's where we love to take the children for a swim. But our favourite beach to take the dogs for walks is a very dog friendly beach along an inlet where the fishing boats come and go. It then turns a corner and heads out to the ocean, but not on a swimming beach - it's a discovering beach, looking for shells in the rock pools and that's where Marley and I walked.

People were fishing at low tide...

Others swam with their dogs....hmmmm not too sure about this beach. They used to have shark nets up here in a semi-circle forming a pool for children to swim safely. They recently removed them. Fishing boats come and go and so do the sharks looking for what gets thrown overboard....

Marley was so excited to be going for a walk. Rules are dogs on leads until after 4pm so he was on his extendable lead until then....

He was just begging to be let off the lead...

This is "the place" to take your dog and Marley was curious to meet so many different dogs that day...

The tide came in quite quickly and in no time at all this entire beach was covered with water, no sand left to walk on....

I love to look at all the sail boats and imagine who owns them and where they've travelled...

Further around the headland we walked among the rock pools....

There is so much life hiding just beneath the rocks....my daughter arrived with her friends' family and they lay on their tummies in the water and watched the zebra fish swimming past...

These rock formations always amaze me....in parts they form perfect natural rectangles...they almost look as though they've been cut into pavers....

The rocks can be very sliperry and slimey to walk on without the right footwear...

Another perfect day out....

Now home to give Marley a bath!

He was so exhausted he could hardly stay standing for me to dry him off.