Big Rocks

This past Saturday was spent on a bus trip to the UK. A loooong ride to go see Stonehenge and do some shopping in Salisbury.

At Stonehenge it was crazy windy but the sun was shining and it was mostly a nice day.

We didn't have a lot of time in Salisbury, just enough for lunch and then some yarn and needle shopping. Although I'm pretty sure instead of a pair of knitting needles I got magic wands.

Followed by a final bevvie at The Lazy Cow.

In the meantime the Brindle was spending a nice weekend with Uncle Jerry and Uncle Mark. Doing Brindle things, like tormenting the cat, playing with the lambs next door and helping out with some yard work.

He was most pleased that I brought him a present this time.

He's just having a bit of trouble figuring out what to do with it.

More Beach Time

Today we're back on the Outer Banks of North Carolina with Lynn Buck and Libby.

Every morning, we would go out at sunrise and Libby discovered the joys of chasing and digging for fiddler crabs.  Once she figured out that the holes were where they went, she would dig to China.

And she was always so pleased with herself :p

Come on mom or me and dad are gonna get all the crabs!

Not only were there fiddlers, but there were also horseshoe crabs, too.  They didn’t wanna play as much as the fiddlers.

Anyone for the beach?

Today is part one of two sent in by Lynn Buck. Two parts because Lynn sent me so many great photos I have to use them all. Off we go with Lynn's explanation.

We took Libby on our trip to the Outer Banks of North Carolina this past week.  She LOVED it!  Especially the water and hunting for fiddler crabs.

We stayed on Hatteras Island.  Hatteras is one of the main tourist attractions of the Outer Banks, next to where the Wright Brothers first made their flight in Kitty Hawk.

The Outer Banks is very undeveloped in many places.  The Cape Hatteras National Seashore is incredible.  We didn’t see maybe 50-60 people on the beach at any given time.  Most had their dogs with them, which the outer banks are the only NC beaches that allow dogs year round  Many of the hotels and rental houses are dog friendly.

Here, Libby is looking for her Boston Terrier friend she had made earlier.

Libby and I checking out the waves.  She loved the water, but when the waves would go back out, she would jump straight up in the air because of the sand pulling against her paws, lol.  She would go out about chest deep and also try to “eat” the foam from the water.

Attacking the foam and waves.

We visited the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse.  It’s the tallest brick lighthouse in the nation.

 to be continued...