Law
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A couple of weeks ago I posted asking people for tips and advice for taking my frist trip to the beach with Mr Darcy... here is how it went with pics in the Pic Gallery.
We thought the weather would be miserable enough to deter people and they would have all stayed home, we thought wrong!
It was torrential in the morning but blue skies and sunshine appeared with just enough of a breeze to ensure that every kite surfer in the county went to the beach today. We got there and there were about 20 of them and not just piddly little kites but proper full blown enormous ones that you surf in the water with
And jet skis!
So we had 10 minutes of calm before Darcy clocked them all and went a bit bananas
Cue lots of bouncing, mini rears, napping and more mini rears, cantering on the spot and being a pain in the bum.
I knew what i had to do, I had to get him going forward so trotted flat out for about 20 minutes solid, serpentines, circles, changes of rein unti he was vaguely tired. I stood him still for a split second and off he went with the bouncing again so we then spent another 20 minutes solid trotting the same way but through pools as well. He finally calmed down enough to stop bouncing and jogging so we walked for a short while. An hour and a half later and he was walking on a long rein but still could have gone on for the rest of the day- he was so hyper!
So thank you everone who told me to avoid kite surfer and jet skis! You were all right!!
One pic of us enjoying! Many, many pics in the gallery
We thought the weather would be miserable enough to deter people and they would have all stayed home, we thought wrong!
It was torrential in the morning but blue skies and sunshine appeared with just enough of a breeze to ensure that every kite surfer in the county went to the beach today. We got there and there were about 20 of them and not just piddly little kites but proper full blown enormous ones that you surf in the water with
And jet skis!
So we had 10 minutes of calm before Darcy clocked them all and went a bit bananas
I knew what i had to do, I had to get him going forward so trotted flat out for about 20 minutes solid, serpentines, circles, changes of rein unti he was vaguely tired. I stood him still for a split second and off he went with the bouncing again so we then spent another 20 minutes solid trotting the same way but through pools as well. He finally calmed down enough to stop bouncing and jogging so we walked for a short while. An hour and a half later and he was walking on a long rein but still could have gone on for the rest of the day- he was so hyper!
So thank you everone who told me to avoid kite surfer and jet skis! You were all right!!
One pic of us enjoying! Many, many pics in the gallery
