Last week Ryan said we were going on a road trip on Monday but wouldn’t tell me where. So early Monday we made a picnic lunch, gathered up the dogs and got in the car for our surprise. We drove out to Westport on the coast, to the Westport Light State Park.
It has picnic tables, a bathroom (but no drinking fountain), and parking lot at the trail head. There is a paved trail, with benches and lookouts along it, that goes for 1.3 miles and meets up with Westhaven State Park. The paved path is up from the beach surrounded by tall (and sharp) beach grasses and small bushes, wildflowers, etc. There are dirt paths leading away from the paved path down to the beach. Several times we picked a path that led to a big dropoff and had to backtrack to find a safe path down to the beach. The beach is a nice sandy and pebbled shoreline.
Poppy Seed and McCoy leading the way up the trail.
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Views from the path.
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One of the lookouts.
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Heading down to the beach. You can barely see the dogs in the tall grass.
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The dogs aren’t to sure about this beach business. McCoy says, “that water tastes NASTY!”.
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After our first walk along the beach we went back to the trailhead and had a nice picnic lunch then headed back out to the trail. By the second time around it was getting hot and the dogs were getting tuckered out. When we got back down to the beach McCoy just flopped down in the wet sand to cool off. We stayed there waiting for a wave to come in and get him (I know, evil parents!) but I didn’t quite catch it with the camera.
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“Okay, we’ve cooled off our paws.
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Home is this way, follow us” –Poppy and McCoy.
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We had a lot of fun and really tuckered the dogs out.
