Wednesday 29 July 2015

Dog Walk on Blast Beach, Dawdon, Seaham, County Durham

A couple of days ago we decided to make the most of the Summer by taking our two dogs, Barley the Lurcher, and Porter the Rottweiler, to the beach for a mooch.
Summer? Hahaha!
Lately we've been wearing Winter coats when out walking the dogs, slippers indoors, and we've even had the fire on a couple of evenings.

Welcome. #BlastBeach #CountyDurham #England #NationalTrust

Crappy weather aside, we are very fortunate to have several beaches nearby to choose from, of which three are beaches we use regularly. But this time we thought we'd try somewhere new, so we drove to Blast Beach.

As is. No filter or editing, it really was this lovely. 😜☔️☁️πŸ˜¨πŸ˜‚ #BlastBeach #DawdonBeach #beach #sea #NorthSea #CountyDurham #England #EnglishSummer

Thankfully, despite it being the end of July, we were the only people on the beach - probably because it was a gorgeous Summers day; cold, windy and chucking it down.
Rain rain go away, come again another day.......
Gotta love an English Summer! Ha-fecking-ha!

Anyway, from the car-park the quickest route down the the beach was barred, the next route was not suitable, as Barley and Porter are both strong pullers on the lead, and the rain had turned the grassy bank into a scene from Glastonbury festival.
So we kept walking along the clifftops until we came to some steps made from large flat rocks, which lead straight down to the beach.

Barley. Arse. πŸ• We're nearly there. ☔️☁️😨 Blast Beach, which was where they shot the opening scenes for Alien 3. πŸ‘½ #BlastBeach #DawdonBeach #CountyDurham #beach #sea #England #EnglishSummer #dog

By this time all four of us were completely soaked. Cold. Tired. But as I said there was no one else on the beach, so we were happy - ish.

We were all seriously fecking wet, but we finally got down on to the beach. Blast Beach, which was where they shot the opening scenes for Alien 3. πŸ‘½ πŸ‘žπŸ‘ŸπŸ•πŸ•☔️☁️☔️ #dog #Lurcher #DawdonBeach #BlastBeach #b

We let the boys off their leads and they immediately started running around each other, with a bit of snarling, barking, neck nipping, and tail nipping. Well, we've only had Porter for a few days, so they are still getting used to each other.......

Initially there was lots of growling and nipping; Porter nipped Barleys tail, Barley nipped Porters neck. πŸ˜³πŸ˜±πŸ˜– But after a while they calmed down, and enjoyed running around together. No blood, no injuries. Phew! πŸ‘πŸ•:


We had hoped to take some proper photos of the DLSR camera, but because the rain was so heavy we didn't want to ruin the camera, so we just shot a few quick photos on our phones.
Barley was mainly happy just to zoom about all over the sand, and roll around with a dead fish, and Porter was happy attacking an empty flagon he'd found washed up on the beach.

Porter enjoying his new toy. Hahaha! πŸΆπŸ’¨πŸ˜‚ #Rottweiler #rescuedog #Lurcher #sighthound #dog #BlastBeach #DawdonBeach #CountyDurham #England #EnglishSummer #blackandwhite

Blast beach is famous for being the location where the opening scenes for the film Alien 3 were shot.
Other than that I have nothing much more to say about it.

This. Blast Beach, which was where they shot the opening scenes for Alien 3. πŸ‘½ πŸ‘žπŸ‘ŸπŸ•πŸ•☔️☁️☔️ #DawdonBeach #BlastBeach #beach #sea #CountyDurham #England #EnglishSummer

It was a decent enough beach, but I'm sure when the weather is good it will be too busy for us to use, as Barley doesn't believe in recall, and no doubt Porter will soon copy his bad habits. Hehe!
On a bright sunny day, I imagine Blast Beach would be really lovely, lots of rich colours and textures in the landscape, but horrible rain drenched days are the only ones that would be good for us to return.
Mr.R and me both prefer the beaches we usually go to, so that's probably the first and last time we'll ever visit Blast Beach.
Have you been to Blast Beach?
The Alien films are some of my favourites, do you like them?
Does your dog have good recall?

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