explorers

On Day Two of the Andersons' trip to Setauket, the family rose and set out on a morning adventure. The parents opted to run around the neighborhood, the siblings decided to take the dog for a walk. We ended up at the neighborhood beach access.

I was amazed at the change in terrain down by the beach. There was more sand but the dunes had been flattened, and it was easy for Moose to walk.

Lead the way, Mooser!
We just kept walking . . .
We found a creature or two.Ryan enjoying the sun.

Beautiful peaceful ocean.

What do you wanna do? I dunno, what do you wanna do?

King of the Rock!

We walked out to the tip of Crane Neck and found an area of the beach where hundreds of star fish and shells had washed up on shore. I mean, hundreds. We were walking all over the star fish . . . it was a bit horrible, the carnage of echinoderms. There was a bucket nearby so we collected a few of the finer specimens.
I started to worry about Moose and the dead starfish and all the shells and rocks hurting his poor little pawsies. But at this point we were at the tip of the peninsula and figured it was faster to keep walking home on the beach than to walk all the way back to the road and then home.

So we kept walking.

We took breaks for little Moose to rest his feet.

He walked slower and slower, and he grew thirstier and thirstier.

We came upon a boat, and I considered paddling it home, but it had a large hole in it.

A lobster boat! Maybe they'll take us back!

But they passed us by.

I volunteered to carry him.

But that only lasted a second or two.

Well, soon enough we rounded the corner and found the path up to our house. And while Moose pretended to be exhausted the entire time, he perked right up when he got in the house and found his new favorite toy - a squeaky hedgehog my mom brought him.

And we had quite the haul drying on the porch!