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Dogs ride the ups and downs with us. Real life Surf Dog Diaries

Meet writer dogs. Rider dogs. Best dog friends. Surf the couch, the www, or a wave. Wave back at us!

It's all about the ride. The ride of life with a dog.

The ride of life with Doodle, dinky doxie wa wa

Barbara Ayers July 1, 2017

Summer fun -

Jump on board with doxie wa wa Doodle, a SUP pup (stand up paddleboarder) and a rad stick fisherman.
Wait for it.... trouble's lurking - Marmaduke is nearby.
Video (and surf dog chauffeuring) by dog mom Barb Ayers, DogDiary.org.

This video is dedicated to Doodle's online girlfriend Sofi, dog daughter of author Martha Pound Miller.  

Doodle hopes this video convinces Sofi she needs to meet him at last, in person. Or is it, meet him in dog? In dog person?

Here that spunkster Sofi. Wouldn't she 'n Doodle make a cute couple?

How dog daters Doodle and Sofi "met"
Tags dog diary, Hood River OR, Columbia River Gorge, SUP pup, dog SUP, standup paddleboard dog, dog friend, cute animal story, funny dog video, GoPro dog video, doxie wa wa, Doodle the doxie, surfing dog, surf dog mom Barb Ayers, Surf Dog Diaries, great dane, day in life of, I love my dog, i luv dogs, dog lover, dogs are family, dog diaries, dog blog, fur baby, DogDiary.org

Nonprofit Hood River Adopt-A-Dog asks for help funding sweet Phoebe's surgery

Barbara Ayers March 25, 2017

One of our favorite charities needs help - Phoebe the sweet little rescue dog had major leg surgery. They set up a fundraising site to help. 

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Elvis and Dude asleep in the tent                                    Photo: (c) Barb Ayers, DogDiary.org

Elvis and Dude asleep in the tent                                    Photo: (c) Barb Ayers, DogDiary.org

Surf dog secret spot: camping the redwood coast

Barbara Ayers March 10, 2017

Cedar scent in my tent. Soft and spongy soil. Rhythmic breath, deep basset baritone. Elvis, snoring louder than anyone ever should. Sawing logs in the redwood forest.

          He ain’t nothing but a hound dog.

Mouth agape, grinning about some really great inside joke that only basset hounds know. He was a yard sale. Sprawled all over the place. Dwarf two-inch legs jutting up to the sky, like four posts of a billboard promoting dogs on vacation. I wish I could sleep like – live like -- that.

          Let it all go, his body said.

Sun coming up, searing a laser hot slice of orange glow through turquoise tent. Snuggled up to Elvis, the king of camping, was his best bud, Dude. The basset/beagle, a bagel, was spooning Elvis, quietly snoring with a peaceful baby face. Dude released himself to the universe. The forest.

            Let it all go.

Like a sweet little basset boy that finally found home. In a Coleman tent that rattled in the ocean breeze.

Wait, did someone say ocean?

           Barrroooooooo!

Right inside the tent, with redwood air and basset hounds sawing logs, was the scent of the sea, the rhythm of Mother Ocean.

You can smell her from the forest, few places on Earth – here in the California redwoods. Here in No Cal, two hundred year old trees hang out with their next door neighbors, sandy beaches. You never see that in So Cal, where we once lived.

Two dudes at the overlook on the redwood coast.   Photo: (c) Barb Ayers, DogDiary.org

Two dudes at the overlook on the redwood coast.   Photo: (c) Barb Ayers, DogDiary.org

Here, the forest and the ferns and the cliffs and the mist…. Here, there are so fewer people than So Cal - the way nature intended.

This is the real deal. A surf dog secret spot. That view of the redwood coast, near the Oregon border, will change your life. If you let it.

Elvis lumbered out, ahead of us on the trail. And stood, statuesque, on the shoreline bluff. Misty filtered morning light, deep basset hound thoughts.

Mesmerizing waves, dancing to shore. Round black rocks, rocking back and forth, back and forth in the tide, making music.

Elvis, thoughtful. Gazing out at the future ahead.

I loved that about him- the effortless ability to sum it all up in the fewest words possible.

 

= Flashbacks with Dude n Elvis. I miss my old boys! =

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