This weekend Cody, Sappho, and I headed up to one of my favorite places - Deception Pass. This breathtaking area can get pretty busy during the summer, but this time of year you can often get solitude if you go early enough and avoid the favored spots.
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| Incredible beauty! |
We aren't very picky about our spots - we want isolated, solitary, and full of interesting smells and sights. We started our morning with a mile walk to a beach far away from the main spots and was rewarded with a completely empty beach.
You may notice the pups are are retractable leashes. I do use them in certain areas, but I don't trust my hands to hold them firmly so they are looped through the waist belt of my pack. This gives the dogs about 16 feet of freedom without tripping over leashes. In my pack I always carry separate five or six foot leads as backup.
We started down a beach covered in pebbles, large rocks, barnacles, old clam shells, and even some oyster shells. The tide was out so the dogs got in some tidal flat explorations.
They frequently checked in, knowing that voluntary check-ins often get rewarded with treats!
The beach was covered in sea life from seaweed to barnacles to even jellyfish. I picked some as we went along to show the dogs. Sappho wasn't much interested, having a more refined palate than her coarse foster brother!
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| A barnacle covered rock? |
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| Not interested. |
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| How about an oyster? |
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| Hmmm.... |
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| Maybe just a taste... |
Cody didn't actually bite it although he did think about it!
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