Trip to Lithuania 26-29.8

We had a wonderful end to wonderful summer - a trip to Lithuania. Our destination was Curonian Spit. We were there few years ago with Rocco and our friends and the beach and sand dunes were so beautiful, that we wanted to show them to our daughter too. And as our dogs have no illusions that home should stay in place, car and bus do just fine :o), they of course travelled with us.

It's quite long and boring drive to get there, one very interesting place we found next to road -Šiauliai's Hill of Crosses:

On Curonian Spit we first visited Sea museum and dolphinarium.

This is sea lion Pirate:I was so impressed how well trained he was. The tricks were really complex and he was soooo good. Clicker training for dogs is based on training of dolphines, and I really got confirmed, that it has no limits.

As amazing was the show of dolphines. Look at one of them playing basket ball:

And this trick was most impressing for me, 2 dolphins lifting their trainer to throw the ball to basket:

And seal and sea lion kissing :

Amazing, amazing, amazing.

Dogs had to wait for us in bus, so that they would also get the chance to see the dolphine, we bought them one :o) :

Next stop was on Grey dune. Kelli was impressed with all the sand around and was playing by herself so I tried to take pictures of dogs. Our good old Rocco of course cooperated as usual:

But, after long drive, our little fun Lucky had everything else to do then to pose for me :o)

Well, I still managed to capture one moment he was standing still :o) :

Next we went to the sea. Sun was just setting and we took a walk on the beach. Daddy went swimming too. Dogs wanted to follow him, but first wave made them all wet, so they stayed on shore with me and Kelli and complained.

And then we sat on back door of our bus and looked at beautiful August sky and celebrated my birthday. It was really different this year and very wonderful.

Next morning we went to the beach and did all the important things you have to do on beach :o). Builded sand castles, :

collected seashells and amber, and of course went swimming:

The waves were big and water was salty, very much different then at home. We stayed there half a day, but as it was end of August already and we just couldn't keep our daughter out of water, to avoid her getting cold, we had to continue our trip. We went to see white dune:

and the living area of cormorants:

And then took direction toward home again. Here's a picture of our travelhome:

I could point out a few :o) differences with caravans parking next to us when we spent night at parking slot next to sea but it's perfectly OK for our needs. And it's possible to keep it warm during night on winter too, so let's see if we can think out something to use this possibility :o)