OH, IT'S GOOD TO HAVE THEM BACK!!!

GREETINGS FROM SOUTH AFRICA!!!

MAXDOG here... (whew, at last!!!)

Hello there all my long lost furry friends from around the world!!!

I have missed you all so much! (and so has Mom!).

Our humans arrived back a little earlier than expected from their seaside jaunt. The weather was quite horrible and they decided to cut their holiday short! But hey, I'M NOT complaining! I missed them so much!
Thankfully Mom organised a nice dogsitter for us, but it's never quite the same as our own humans! We were well looked after though and guess what?!...

MY STITCHES ARE OUT!!!! YIPPEE!!

Well, now that Mom is home, I am ensuring her undivided attention and giving her that "sorry-for-me" eyeball look...it never fails! (hehe!). I simply carry my toy-puppy around and she is a "walk-over" for my attention!

TAMMY too has been practicing her "sorry" look!


...as for the irritating squirts...well they got a BATH!!!


Well, since Mom is back, I can play the TOUR GUIDE again. I can annex all her photographs and tell you all the stories...

It seems that their holiday was 'rained out'!

The eastern coast of South Africa has been experiencing an unexpectedly high amount of rainfall, so our humans literally only had about 4 hours of sunshine. I'm a little confused, because many of Mom's photographs have that"sunny"look...she must have made full use of that little sunshine that they had!

Here are some pictures of the view from their apartment at:

CABANNA BEACH, UMHLANGA ROCKS,

KWA-ZULU NATAL SOUTH COAST.



Well, that looks sunny to me, right!?! But Mom reassures me that this picture was taken the very hour they arrived - from then on it was rainy - except for 4 hours on Wednesday morning.

Mom said that they spent a lot of time just looking out from the balcony over the sea. The view stretches for miles and one can see the ships come and go into the DURBAN harbour.


There was however some regular early morning entertainment! Every day a school of dolphins could be seen swimming up and down the shore-line...

(I organised them for Mom...she just doesn't realise it!!!)



Dolphins are always a big attraction to people!!! Anyone in their vicinity will simply stand, awestruck and watch them. These two people were on a small little boat and "won the jackpot" because the dolphins came to greet them. Mom says that it was beautiful to watch!..

The dolphins were quite confident and often swim very close to shore...

If you can't see them...here is a more focussed-in picture of the same photo...

...and NO, they aren't sharks!!!
Each morning too, boats are dispatched to check all the shark-nets along the SOUTH AFRICAN coastline's beaches. At Umhlanga the dolphins always seem to greet the boats and their occupants. They also have their own way of avoiding the shark nets.

(In the following pictures, the dolphins are below the boat on the right hand side...between the boat and the rocks!)

Well, Mom says it was lovely to watch the dolphins' escapades...they are truly magnificent creatures!

She also took some pictures from the beach...

Umhalanga Rocks has a lighthouse - to warn all the boats about it's rocks. There is also a pier where people can walk (when it doesn't rain!). At high tide, all the pillars which hold up the pier are under water...this was low tide...

This is what the beach looks like at low tide...

Well, there are MANY pictures from mom's collection to show you all and MANY stories to write for all my readers.

I will try and post some more in the days ahead.

Meantime, I am really enjoying Mom being home (and the other humans, of course!)

But for now, I have annexed the bed!...

After I have caught up on my one-on-one time with Mom, I will catch up on all your news on your blogs.

In the past few days we have missed you all so much!

Lots and lots of licks and love

MAXDOG IN SOUTH AFRICA