Water baby

Tucker has a love/hate relationship with water. If it is a mass of standing water that he can enter on his own, he LOVES it. If it comes out of a faucet, he HATES it.

Last night Jason and I took Tucker down to the beach to let him run around. The one we took him to is certainly not the best representation of the beautiful coastline we have here in Massachusetts, but is the closest beach to our house, and the only one we know of that allows dogs during the summer (in the evening only of course).



This is Tucker just before we left... notice how fresh and clean he is!



The tide was so low last night. I've never seen it quite like that before. The beach was so rocky, and there were little puddles of water that were just overflowing with little snails. Tucker had a blast exploring the beach and all of it's wildlife.



Jason was in his own state of bliss, as well, as he enjoyed his new favorite activity (much to my chagrin!), while we strolled along the shore.



We came across this cool pier that leads out to the ocean from some family's backyard (lucky!), so I made him "pose" under it for me. He didn't want to do it, so of course he made goofy faces at me... that's my man! Always a joker!



And finally, I'll leave you with some photos of our Tucker swimming... he would probably do this forever if we would let him! We throw a rock. He swims after it. He turns around when he can't find it (because rocks sink. duh.). He swims back to shore. He shakes. Then begs us to do it all again. And again. And again!



Summer nights... they are so wonderful and yet are only here for such a short time. We are trying to soak in every moment we can of our summer as newlyweds. Last night was a fun and relaxing evening for all of us, especially Tucker... until we got home and he got a bath. :-)