Swimming at Sandgate

Sandgate Beach - This is an awfully big bath, Mum!

Jack here, reporting in from my snuggle blankie. It's been an absolutely beautiful weekend here in sunny Brisbane, so the humans decided to take us on an adventure. Dad put the horrible harnesses on us, and put us in the magic machine (or 'car' as the Mum calls it) and we set off to Sandgate. And we enjoyed ourselves so much yesterday, that we did the same thing today! Yeah! Ella is passed out on the lounge snoring. Dad is passed out in his chair snoring. And I'm getting Mum to type this quickly so that we can join in the snorefest.

Living the good life on our own private island!

I'm completely knackered after going for a proper swim for the very first time. Usually I paddle and then reverse out of the wet stuff as quickly as my paws can take me. But this weekend Mum and Dad were walking with me, and I was bouncing through the water happily when Mum started making the most awful squealing noise! She was saying, "Jackie's swiiiiiiiimiiiiiiing, look babe, he's swimming!"

What? OH NOES, WHERE DID THE GROUND GO?!!! And why is Mum's voice so squeaky?!

Jellyfish - "LEAVE IT" command? Love it!

Anywoof, it was pawsomely fun. Except when the nasty waves kept slapping me in the face and the humans sounded suspiciously like they might have been snickering about it, and offered such useful advice as, "Turn your face away, mate!" Oh Really? If you weren't making me swim towards you into the slap-happy waves that might have been a bit easier, HUMANS!

They also yelled "Leave it!" a fair bit,  but we didn't mind for once because there were scary looking things like this jellyfish! Dad says that this sort isn't dangerous like a lot of the other ones (Ella: I was not told that there are a LOT of other bad stingy sorts! I'm rethinking this beach business.)

Dad also saw a stone fish and even yelled at Mum to stay away from that one. They are very poisonous and can even kill you if the sting is untreated. (Ella: What? .... I'm never leaving the lounge again.)

 

Sandgate Beach - Dogs Gone Wild

We had an absolute ball but all that running and swimming has made me super sleepy so I'm going to tell Mum to put the lappytop and me to bed.  I hope all your dreams are as good as mine will be tonight.