The lagoon is back

Can you keep a secret?
This is a big one.
Council didn't open the lagoon. It was a bunch of guys with shovels in wet suits.   They were supervised by the old boys and they did it at daybreak and well the lagoon was  about to overflow anyway.








Apparently the ride is awesome and it was amazing to watch.

No one filmed it and put it on Youtube, as it could have been incriminating,  unless they had ski masks on and then the local paper would have said

"Lagoon opened by terrorists armed with shovels!."





And since they are locals and surfers who love the lagoon to bits and the lagoon is cleansed and refilling,  all is forgiven.

However, this is strictly a secret and you mustn't tell any one,  on pain of a bite on the bum

Me and mum went down there the first evening it was filling with the high tide.  It was a beauty to behold,

The next day me and mum went down and there were heaps of people and all my friends and it was like a great party,

This is Rex.  He is ultimately the cleverest dog on the earth after Tyson.  Rex chases me, but stops crouches and catches me on the way back  Even better than that, he catches flies.  He is very quick and has a good eye, and has atomic focus and chasing strategy.

This is Handsome boy.  His skills of concentration  and ball chasing are second to none.  He isn't as fast as me, but he is only a tad slower and he has a focus of iron when it comes to ball chasing. And he is great stopping after a full run.

And this is Clarence ,another hound. He has a black coat like me. He is simply regal and that makes him very cool.  He is bigger than me. He is a gentleman hound. I bet his ancestors were hounds to Royalty.

There was so much to do with the lagoon changes.  Lucky we were a team . Rex and Spud did alot of the weed sniffing.

In fact we all did a lot of sniffing. . It was fantastic all the new smells.  We even let a couple of non local dogs join us.

Then we would get hot and go for a swim

It was just people and dogs. There were lot more than this,  but mum restrained herself with the camera as it is old and she is hoping for a new one one day.

We were all happy. You couldn't be miserable.

But what made Mum happy was to see that the swans and their babies were OK.

The lagoon still smells brackish in parts, but its cleaner.

And it has left some brilliant organic art.

And mum put me on the lead when we walked past the grumpy old lady's house.

And I heard mum make a strange sound as we walked past. Mum said she was blowing raspberries.

I asked mum what the sound meant.

Mum said it was her way of saying how sad she was for the lady who didn't know the love of hound and the changing beauty of a beach and a lagoon.


I think mum is right.  We should show compassion to the lady.

But just in case mum is wasting her compassion I hope the ducks all go up and shit on the old grouch's  garden.