{"id":3855,"date":"2020-08-27T12:40:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T19:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/?p=3855"},"modified":"2020-08-27T12:40:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T19:40:51","slug":"foggy-beach-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/archives\/3855","title":{"rendered":"Foggy Beach Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Probably wouldn’t have gotten out of bed so early today because it was foggy and cold, but I’d arranged to meet Sally and Molly on Big River Beach for a walk and flinging the ball and so forth before the beach got too crowded with dogs and tourists. Here’s a sequence of photos to show you how things went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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leaving the house on a foggy morning in August<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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heading down the hill I see the guy who walks his two black dogs here every day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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where Little Lake meets Highway One, the only traffic light in Mendocino<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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heading south on Highway One<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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entering Big River Beach state park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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the beach parking area, just a couple cars here today so far<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Molly waiting for Sally to give her the okay to get out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Molly tiny in the distance waiting for the slow humans to catch up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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walking along beside Big River<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Molly went out into the waves in pursuit of an intriguing harbor seal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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emerging from the waves with her ball<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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negotiating a challenging swell to get her ball<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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heading back the way we came<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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one last long swim to get the ball<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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galloping on the flats<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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back at the cars<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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one pooped pup<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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getting back on Highway One heading north<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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steep uphill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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passing the empty elementary school<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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home again<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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rinsing the sand off my feet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Beautiful as performed by Todd and Marcia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Probably wouldn’t have gotten out of bed so early today because it was foggy and cold, but I’d arranged to meet Sally and Molly on Big River Beach for a walk and flinging the ball and so forth before the beach got too crowded with dogs and tourists. Here’s a sequence of photos to show […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6065,1702,6066,9,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3880,"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions\/3880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}