About two hours south of Wilmington Delaware, there are a bunch of beaches. We decided to check out Henlopen State Park, which is supposedly quiet and dog friendly. After a big breakfast of pancakes and sausages, everyone piled into the car, and we drove south, stopping for fried chicken along the way.
We were about to open the chicken in the car, but we barely popped the corner of the box and the two dogs went wild, so we had to save it.
Henlopen State Park has a main beach that does not allow dogs until end of September, and another beach where fishermen go, which does allow dogs on leashes, though in practice all the dogs are roaming free. On that beach, people drove their SUVs and jeeps directly onto the beach, cast their rods and then stuck them in the sand and say and waited.
"We don't want to let the fishing disturb our vacation," one man said, as he reclined next to his rod. In about 30 minutes though, his rod had bent over, and he grabbed, and reeled in a large, silvery fish! Our Samoyed promptly lunged at it and tried to eat it, but the man took it off the hook and threw it back into the sea, while the dog looked despondently. "I'm sorry I threw your fish back," he said. "Would he have actually eaten it?" He then asked us.
Probably not--but he would have picked up the poor thing and shaken it until it died of fear or suffocation.
It was a perfect day at the beach--warm but not too hot. The water was nice, but the waves were strong. Both the Samoyed and I got bowled over by the waves more than once. I ended up with some scratches from the debris of seashells that was churned up by the water.
Since we were close to Rehoboth, we stopped by the purple parrot for dinner. They were having a dog friendly happy our to benefit the Delaware Humane Society, so a lot of four legged friends were present.
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