Internet Tails - Part 7 - 'MAKING A SPLASH'
I think I’ve mentioned before…I LOVE SWIMMING! Yep, you lead a Jake to water and in I get!
Imagine….crystal clear, cool, deep, never ending….water…. I’m totally in there!!! Just talking to you about it makes me want to get Mum & Dad in the car and on the way to a nice stream or river……..
Ok dreaming over, I wanted to tell you about my trip to the new river! I have been there before, but its now up there as one of my favourite places to visit.
Don’t get me wrong, I still am madly in love with Sheepstor, as I can run freely around the area and can jump into the water in various places. However, this new place, Shaugh Prior has SOOOO much water and loads of woodland around it, which makes it ideal to dash about amongst the trees, enabling me to have the odd wee. Plus get my fix of a good swim. In fact, its just like having my own swimming pool…complete with diving board.
No, I’m not completely mad…its true, a nice big rock is my diving board, which enables me to leap into a deep pool of crystal clear water.
As soon as I arrive there and am let off to roam free, I head straight to the rock and ……. Weeeeeeeeeeee ….in I go! Heaven!
Mum & Dad often sit on a nearby rock and just watch me diving in, swimming around and then getting out, shaking off then back for another dive in. They often ask me why I bother shaking off…to be honest….I really have no idea. Apart from not liking the feeling of being dripping wet when I’m not in the water .. I guess that must be the reason, either that or a habit inbreed in us dogs!
Lately I’ve been allowed to spend as much time as I like doing this. Until they see me shaking from the cold. I don’t feel it until I’ve got out for a while, then boy does it get chilly! Its then that they tell me to “shaky leggs” I do and we head back to the warmth of the car and homeward bound to dry off.
Summer is great fun. Not only do I get the chance to roam the moorland and woodlands near my home. I also get to make a huge splash in the local streams and rivers…yes summer is great fun…swimming….my favourite pastime!
- Posted by clarekenward on 18/05/2007.
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