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| Beautiful Sandy Bay - one of the best doggie beaches in Sydney! |
Today was seriously, seriously warm. Summer had well and truly arrived in Sydney. We decided we needed to cool the dogs down, and it was again a good opportunity for me to get into the water.
It was utterly fabulous. The water was so refreshing, and it was easy to splash about with our doggies, both in the shallows and in the deep. I decided to swim without goggles and ear plugs, as I thought I needed to get used to not having them on in case I lose them in some way in race day. And it was all fine - my eyes didn't hurt from the salt, and water didn't get into my ears and give me a headache.
I couldn't believe I even wanted to attempt to swim out into the seriously deep water and practice going around a buoy. But I decided against it as our dogs were intent on following me everywhere I swam, and I was worried they would get tired and drown. Adrian also pointed out that the current going out was pretty strong, so I (and the dogs) would have to work harder coming back to shore.
I realised just how strong the current was when Baxter followed me into the deep water and refused to turn around and swim back to the shallows without me - I was madly treading water and trying to push him to go back, and I could feel myself being pulled out. I was starting to get seriously tired and was getting a bit worried when Baxter finally realised I was going back with him and started to swim back. We were both pretty tired after that little excursion!
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