Western Australia - Exmouth, Ningaloo Reef & Whale Sharks

The welcoming committee

Snorkeling at Ningaloo Reef

Pretty fish!

Giant Clam

Whale Shark!

This boy was HUGE! over 7.5 meters (~24 feet)

Octopus

Ray

Brilliant blue Giant Clam

View of the sunrise from our hotel

Turquoise Bay

Beautiful flower living in the middle of a desert!

This is the life...

Yardley Creek

Lizard tracks

Western Australia - Part 1

Just a few pictures from Mom's trip to Australia (without me!!)

Swan River

Common Egret on the Swan River

Beach in Dunsborough

Shabby looking white Cockatoos...these guys apparently got really beat up during a storm earlier in the month. High winds & golf ball sized hail were tough on them!

Mom & her friends at Eagle Bay

Wise Winery

The first Roo spotting!

Big surf!

Stunningly beautiful coastlines & water!

Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse

Kangaroo tracks

Overlook on a trail in Cape Naturaliste Park

Hiding between two rocks

Bob the lizard, sunning himself on the path

Whale carcass on the beach

more to come...

52 Weeks of Murphy - 19/52

Pet Day on the Bay

Mom and I went on a BIG boat today!!

Hornblower Cruises was having their annual Pet Day on the Bay fundraiser for the Helen Woodward Animal Center. All Mom has to do is bring a 'gently used' towel or blanket as a donation. Pretty cool, huh?!?

There were lots of other doggies...even some of my friends from the Great Dane Meetup were there!

Rebel...a 7 year old rescue Harlequin

There were also lots of non-Great Dane doggies there. This one looked like he was ready to be captain!

Bella came out too. She's 5 months old now, and has grown quite a bit since the last time we saw her at Paws in the Park!

All the doggies were very well behaved. There wasn't even one accident on the big boat!

At first I was kinda nervous. When we walked onto the boat we had to go on a long metal dock that kept movin a little...it was a little strange! Then, once we got on the boat I could see the water below but couldn't figure out quite how to get there!

Pretty soon, I relaxed though and started to enjoy the ride. It was a beautiful day out on the water

And there was a nice lady walkin around main sure none of us doggies were thirsty! How nice is that!

The city looked beautiful as we cruised around the bay.

We even got to see a yacht race with some really cool old ships! Mom found out later that these were rare steam powered yachts, and that the race was a special event! The dark boat is named Cangarda, and the white boat is called the Medea. The Medea is a steam powered yacht from 1904! That's OLD!

It was kinda neat to see all the different boats on the water. Everyone was definitely taking advantage of a beautiful day.

The boat we were on cruised around the harbor for about an hour, passing underneath the Coronado Bay Bridge before turning around and heading back to dock.

We even got to cruise by some of the hugemongous Navy ships that are routinely docked in the San Diego harbor.

After a while it got a little warm in the sun, so I headed downstairs to go inside where Bella, Trinity & Rebel had moved to. While the boat headed back to the dock, we had a great time playin around!

Once back on land, we got to see Stars & Stripes USA Sail 11 cruise by. This is a sailboat that a friend of ours works on, and used to be part of the racing team for the America's Cup.

To end our afternoon, everyone headed over to Anthony's Fish Grotto for some foodables. Mom said the salmon sandwich was super yummy! Err...Umm...Mom? I'm bein super good, don't I get a bite?

All in all, what a great day! I'm so glad Mom's back so we can get back to doing fun stuff like this!

I'm back! & 18/52 - Murphy at the Grandpawrent's resort

Mom made it back from the place she called Oz....I asked her about it though and apparently there was no yellow brick road.

I had a great time at my grandpawrents though. Grandmaw is retired so I got to spend lots of time with her. She even took me on a bunch of walkies! There's also a super nice dog park near their house, and Grandpaw took me there a couple of times as well.

Oh, and guess what!?!  They have a HUGE drinking bowl in their back yard! They called it a pool, but really, I think they meant bowl, but they are what Mom calls 'seniors', so who knows what they meant.

Grandpaw even took my picture by it so I wouldn't miss a week of "52 weeks for dogs"! How cool is dat!?!

Oh, and anudder thing...I found a whole nest of baby bunnies! Grandmaw said one of dem was injured and she thinks I mighta dun it when I was diggin, but I was really just tryin to say hi. Baby bunnies are so cute!

It was super good to see Fergie when we got back to our house. I think she musta been eatin some sorta super catnip or sumthin while we were gone though...she's gotten really big and all her gray fluffiness is turning into tiger stripes! I almost din't recognize her! Think she'll get as big as me someday??

Anyways...I'm super glad to have Mom back. She had ALL kinds of fun while she was in Australia. Even got to swim with some ginormous fish called a Whale shark! I think those are even bigger than Great Danes! She says to stay tuned for pictures...you know how she is with that flashy camera box thingy, I bet she got a little carried away with it during her trip.