Agility Training

I was invited to train at the Alice Springs Dog Club. Here are some pics of me doing my stuff. The main one of me on the table was picked because I was standing still and looked sharp. In the others I am jumping the Broad Jump and coming out of the Tunnel but I was moving too fast for the camera and appeared a little blurred. (OK, you can bang on about F stops, ISO settings and light levels, but I was still too fast for the camera!)

We are here for a week, Trials at the weekend and then we are heading home.

When we get home, my baby sister Hannah will be coming to join me. With two of us working on the humans, they won't stand a chance.

Hotter than Hell on a Hot Day

Here I am in the caravan at Camooweal. Why am I in the caravan you may ask, the answer is, because that's where the air conditioner is. I have genetically evolved to cope with Canadian winters, where barks come out as frozen blocks and you have to throw them on a fire so that you can hear them, and they have brought me to the hottest place they could find on the edge of the Northern Territory Desert.

Humans! There are times when I could bite them.

A Real Australian

There is a sign here that says "You are not a real Australian until you have been to Mount Isa", well I am in Mount Isa so I am a Real Australian. It doesn't seem any different, but it must be somehow.

The pic shows me at the Chinaman Creek recreation reserve between Mount Isa and Cloncurry where we went for a visit and a run.

I get a run in the dog park near the caravan park, and lots of people want to pat me here, so life is good in Mount Isa.

Gulf Girl

I am on the Gulf of Carpenteria's south eastern corner at Karumba Point. Hot during the day, and hot at night too. I can not go for a swim in the Gulf because there is an 18 foot crocodile that lives in the river mouth right next to the caravan park. Lucky for me the van is air conditioned or I would not get any sleep at all.

I was taken round the Baramundi Farm here, but all there is to see are tanks full of fish. KnK seemed interested in the farm but I found the lady with the bucket of fish food far more interesting.

Atherton Training

Last night I went to the Tablelands Obedience Dog Club at Atherton. (The pic shows me looking at the Tablelands)
The club made all of us welcome and I had a practice on their Agility equipment. I tricked Keith by doing the weavers perfectly from the left, but I would not do them at all from the right. I have to do things like this to keep him trying.
Anyway, there is a trial on Saturday and Sunday so I will be back for a visit then.

Quiet Time Out

We have settled in Atherton for a while. The park is not very busy and there is a big open area at the back for me to have a run. Keith set up some jumps and weaving poles so I have been doing some training as well as chasing a ball.

KnK found a dog wash and car wash. I went through both. Inside the car for the car wash, I saw this big scary thing spraying soap and water all over us and making a lot of loud noise. I was glad when that was over. Then they put me in the dog wash and cleaned all the sand, grit, mud, slime and anything else that had stuck to my fur while we were camping on the Cape. They turned the blow dryer on me and I attacked it, but it still got me dry.

Since then I have been having a lazy time, playing ball and sleeping.

Cooktown Rock

After being cooped up in a tent for a week, I have finally got a chance to have a good run. I am at Finch Beach near Cooktown where there is a huge rock that I could run up, across the top and then down the other side. It was just like a big dog walk really.

Later on I went along the edge of the sea and barked at the waves, sniffed all the mangrove roots and jumped all over Kathy leaving sandy, wet footprints all over her. Oh what happiness!