Tails On the Waterfront

You know how when you're chasing birds you get in the zone? So focused you don't realize you're about to run right off the edge of the cliff? Uh-huh, that's right, just about happened to me right here. Let it be a lesson to you: big birds are soooo wily! You think that was a coincidence that their escape path went right over the end of the dock?

Mucho happenings on the Manteo waterfront this week! My personal favorite: About 6 p.m. every summer evening both the Downeast Rover and the Dolphin Watch boats (sitting side by side) load lots of passengers for their evening cruises. So there're lots of peeps milling about. (I'm off leash when we're on the boardwalk since my peep doesn't seem to need as much help walking back there--I think she's afraid of cars--but I do keep an eye on her and never get more than 10 to 15 feet away.) So here comes me and my peep weaving through the crowd. There's a flat ramp to board the Dolphin Watch. The passengers are seated. The guy on the microphone is yakking away. Passengers are attentively listening. I see an opening. I run for it. I board the boat! Right under the noses of the ticket-takers! Tail up and waving and with a big grin, I do a victory lap around the boat and run right back off the boat! The passengers are laughing, the ticket-takers are laughing, my peep's laughing. The guy says "nobody heard a word I said!" Yee-haw! Exhilarating!

I'm tellin' ya, this place is a DisneyWorld for dogs!

Speaking of which, here's an alert for you local dogs: there's a BIG, juicy, stinky fish head decomposing under the foot bridge that crosses the Dog Beach (that's right, a dog beach!) by Marshes Light condos. Canine eau de sushi. Dig in and roll, baby! Cause a high tide could take that delicacy away! I rolled in it. I stunk so bad I swear there were clouds of stink just undulating as I strutted the remainder of the patrol. You guessed it, I was rudely snatched up, deposited in the kitchen sink, robbed of my snazzy collar and pirate bandana, and doused with foul-smelling dog shampoo. She can't take my memories away though.

Word got around about last week's cheese curl bonanza at the Saturday morning Farmers Market. Here's the evidence:



So many dogs came out! I hope they got lucky like I did with the cheese curls, cause unless improvements are made soon, we're going to end the season--once again--with just plants and vegetables being offered at Farmers Market! What about us? Oh, Puparazzi Lisa wherefor art thou?

Coming up this week: First Friday in downtown Manteo. It's crowded, it's exciting, there's live music...there's food being dropped everywhere!

Next week is my perennial second favorite event (WAY more food being dropped at Dare Day): the two-day art show that just covers the waterfront. Gotta do a lot of bobbing and weaving on my patrol because of the crowd but I'm nimble and it keeps me alert!

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