Hunmanby Gap

Jane and Andrea have been telling us to visit this beach for months, and we finally got around to it last week. It was really cold, but the dogs loved it. Kim loved chasing the birds, Mollie lovedchasing Kim, and Dylan loved herding all of us into the sea.

Beaches are a rare trip in our household because we live right in the middle of the country. The nearest coast is at least an hour and a half away, and dog-friendly beaches are usually further than that.

This beach really is fab though. It was pretty busy for a cold wet day just after Christmas but you can’t tell from the photos. We met 2 pointers, 2 Labradors, 6 Jack Russell Terriers, 3 Norfolk Terriers, 2 German Shepherds, various crossbreeds, and 1 Golden Retriever puppy who was so excited to be there, but the beach was so huge we never really bumped into them unless we wanted to.

It was freezing, as I may have mentioned (I think it was around 2°C) but the dogs still went in the sea. Mollie is obsessed with the sea. We had only had her a few weeks when she came on a camping holiday with us, and she spent the whole trip chasing the waves up and down the shore. It was clear that she’d never had the opportunity to just run about and have fun, and on the first day she refused to come home. Luckily she was still a fat little dog at the time so it wasn’t hard to catch her. She still finds the sea totally irresistible.

We walked for just over 2 hours, but Kim got very cold and we decided to call it a day.