Going somwhere.
That beach towel should have been a clue, but it has been used at the office for the last few months to keep my fur off the chair i used to get up onto the desk, and it was doing dual service protecting the van seat.
Even I get fed up with my cast-off fur after a while. I make a big show of shifting my preferred sleeping place so F cleans the loose fur off the old place. So it wasn't such an obvious clue really
We went on a ferry. (That's old hat stuff; I want to go on an aeroplane now.)
Then we ended up here. Yup, you guessed, it IS a beach.
I might quite like a beach if it wasn't for K9s. I could even put up with the proximity of water. It doesn't try to sneak up on you here. And it's nice of someone to build us an umbrella for shade.
It was also a clean beach with picnic tables and rubbish bins, and trees for more and better shade.
However in my limited experience of them, beaches also seem to come with their own compliment of stray or scrounging K9s. This beach had 2. Fortunately they stayed well away from me, but they decided to sleep in the shade of my van and I felt they were stealing from me. So I had to keep a careful lookout and I was making a record so I could send them a bill.
Those yellow things go on human feet for when they go to the water. Unlike snow shoes they don't seem to help the humans to walk on the surface so I don't see the point of them.
Beach??? We are are cowering indoors, sheltering from the gale force winds and cold rain. Hmmphhh...
ReplyDeleteSorry.
DeleteAnd you generally have to walk backwards in those yellow things too!
ReplyDeleteCatching up after many week away.
Yeah - they do walk backward in those yellow things. How did you know?
DeleteHari Om
ReplyDeleteOh my, look at you all facing water and guarding flippers and vans... you truly are a cosmopolitan cat, Mr T. And so handsome with it. I must say, as I sit here all wrapped in layers (including a rather lovely orange knitted affair) in order to keep warm, the idea of lying on a shady beach in bathers seems a rather distant dream... hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
They made me guard the van while they went to get some food. We should have taken a picnic. xxx Mr T
DeleteEnjoying the last of the summer sunshine
ReplyDeleteSend it this way now please. We need to thaw our poor old bones
It IS coming your way.
DeletePhoebe says she wouldn't want all that sand and grit in her fur.
ReplyDeletePhoebe is probably sensible. I wasn't rolling in it however - I save that for beaches with underfloor (geothermal) heating - not unlike your Iceland trip.....
DeleteNICE beach and photos and you look really happy and On Guard for the canines. warm enough for bathing suits and cool enough to seek shade. that is a pretty cool way to make art. i have a few things where I bend down and shoot something that i can't see, i call them blind shots, but they are photos of things recognizable not the arrty trash.....now that you mention this i might have to try it
ReplyDeleteM told me you had been to the beach - I think you are so brave! She also said we are very alike, both leaving fur deposits around the place. I've been doing it a lot lately, as the weather grows warmer. My sister, Millie, leaves great black clumps behind wherever she has been sitting. I just scatter mine all over the place!
ReplyDeleteSending you big purrs, Mittens 😻
It's nice being on a clean beach, the ones here have changed alot over the years, sadly alot of them are so polluted that it's too dangerous to swim, very sad.
ReplyDeleteThat really shocks and saddens me. What happened to clean green NZ?
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