Arroyo Burro Beach, Santa Barbara

This past Friday I had some great friends come up from Glendale, Karen and Craig and we took little Mia to the beach. It was such a beautiful day and the beach we went to is the ultimate dog beach so there were dogs everywhere! It's one of the few places that dogs can just run free.

There were hang glider dudes and crazy para sailers floating around all over the place. I got a shot of an awesome hawk but didn't notice that he had a field mouse in his talons until I got my pictures on the computer, pretty cool.

Mia had the best time and we had the best time watching her go nuts! She's a mini Australian Sheppard so she has that herding gene in her. She loves trying to herd everything. You can see in a couple pictures where she saw an egret off in the distance so she started to stalk her and then went full throttle after it. Well... she went after the Egret and then realized she ran into some pretty deep water. When she stopped running I saw her little head go underwater and I freaked out! I was about to toss my camera (at Craig of course) and jump in after her but she realized it was deep and swam her way out. I was actually proud of her!

Anyway, she loves playing with all the dogs except for this one Hell Hound that chased her away at first but then she went right back over there and it was all good. Check out that picture of the Hell Hound that looks like he's going to eat poor Mia.. look at the fear in her face! haha