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Holiday in Rydal, Blue Mountains

Master Teal'c — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 04:03:33 +0000

Rydal Cottage

Hi my friends! I have just come back from a holiday in the Blue Mountains. You know, I just felt I needed some off time from the big city rush and my hoomans agreed. Am I a lucky dog or what? We went back to Rydal Cottage, a place we have been before, but that was during the time my mum couldn’t be bothered to help me with my blog thats why I couldn’t write about it last time.

RYDAL is approximately 2.5 hours car drive away from Sydney, a lovely little village surrounded by nothing but beautiful countryside. We stayed in “Rydal Cottage” a newly renovated cottage situated in a huge property and the best thing of course is that doggies are allowed!!! (For more information see: stayz.com.au)

I had a blast there! Running around the garden, long walks in the bush, a bone a day!!! and my dad bought me a new ball! Now for me that is much better than a bone. I know, most of you will think I’m crazy and maybe I am but I just LOOOOOVE balls so much…

it’s rather cold

Master Teal'c — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 06:07:15 +0000

At the moment it is rather cold in Sydney. Not Europe or North America cold but cold for someone like me with an Aussie sense of what “cold” feels like. And I have short fur too. But lucky me my mum refuses to turn me in a princess by knitting me a jumper Daddy probably would but, again – lucky me, he can’t knit!!!! Anyway we went on a family holiday last week and my fav spot was in front of the heater. My hoomans feared it might dry my brains out and made me move away all the time but I kept coming back for more… After a long walk in the bush, lot’s of mud, a lake and puddles were involved, my hooman gave me a shower and I sat in front of the heater to dry off. Apparently it also made me extra soft and fluffy…

The kids are asleep, pssssssssssst!

Master Teal'c — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:31:03 +0000

Tealc’s hooman here! I almost forgot about those pictures but I think they are well worth posting. When we went away we rented quite a big holiday house. There is no such thing as a 2 people holiday house in Australia. They are all made for rather big families and sleep at least 6 people. The one we stayed in last time was for 6 adults and 2 kids. Perfect for us – 2 adults and 2 fury kids … The first thing I did was to close all the doors to the rooms we wouldn’t need. That included the kids bedroom as I thought the dogs would be more than happy with the huge sofa.

So when I got up the first morning I was wondering why the kids bedroom door was open. I checked for doggies but they weren’t in there. Although I could see a rather large “dent” in one bed… Kinda the size of a 65 kilo dog Next morning I was there with the camera and the morning after too… Soooooo cute! My guess? Teal’c decides during the night that the sofa isn’t good enough and that he wants to be with the pack. So he jumps into our bed. Max follows and realises that he is just to big to fit in. He feels suitably sorry for himself and goes looking for his own bed. He bumps into the kids bedroom door on his search and it opens… He is just such a big suck!!!!!

Max in bed and Teal'c proofing his point...

Sooooo cute!

Sleepy time!

What?!

More Culburra Beach pictures!

Master Teal'c — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 03:36:22 +0000

My mum is soooooo busy at the moment that she thought “the easy way out” would be to post a few more pictures from out trip down south. We have an article about out holiday-foodables lined up as some of my friends have asked how I stay on a raw diet while being away from home. But articles like that always take a lot longer then posts with happy pictures So here you go! Culburra, dog-friendly beach goodness and some really bad rain!

PS: I’m all happy and healthy again and allowed to play with my friends!!! YEAH!

Culburra Beach Holiday: DAY 1

Master Teal'c — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 08:17:04 +0000

Hello everyone! I’m back from my holiday at Culburra Beach.

Culburra Beach, commonly referred to as Culburra, is in the Shoalhaven region of New South Wales, Australia. It is 18 km east-southeast of Nowra on the South Coast. From the 2006 Census of Population and Housing, the town has a population of 2,910 and is the regional centre for the coastal villages of Currarong, Callala Beach, Callala Bay and Orient Point.

Well, we had the feeling that from those 2,910 hoomans only 100 were there at the time. It was awesome! We had all the beaches just to us. I was really happy that I was allowed to take Max – otherwise there would have been no one to play with except from my hoomans and I’m quite sure they wouldn’t have gone into the water with me… Culburra beach and I would go so far to say the whole region is very, very dogfriendly. You can take your dogs to lot’s of beaches and the area is surrounded by state forest. There are signs that we are only allowed on the beaches from 4PM to 8AM but my hoomans ignored that because there was no one else around. We decided that is sounds more like a high season rule and to be honest – in the Australian summer you don’t want to take your dog outside the house during the day anyway.

Enough writing for today, let’s get started with the pictures. My hoomans took so many that it was difficult to choose which ones to publish. So we decided to do it day by day…

DAY ONE:

Big-City-Dogs on a beach holiday

Master Teal'c — Mon, 31 May 2010 11:00:20 +0000

Hi guys, just wanted to quickly say hello before I go to the beach for walkies Me and my big friend Max are on a holiday down south. Well – my hoomans are with us too because apparently we need some supervising as we are too young to get the fireplace going. No hands, no fire…

We are at Culburra beach again, a place me and my hoomans have been before and which is very dog-friendly…

For our Australian readers – nope, we haven’t been washed away. The rain hasn’t hit the area we are in as hard as the rest of the NSW South Coast. Lucky us! However, let’s not count the chicken before the hatch and have turned into yummy chicken-wings!

Anyway – off for walks now. Will write more later.
Slobbers Master T.

Holidays in Melbourne – are dogs welcome?!

Master Teal'c — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:39:48 +0000

Me and my family, fine – more my family, were thinking of going to Melbourne for a long weekend… And actually they are thinking of not taking me because they aren’t sure how dog friendly Melbourne is. Has anyone an idea? Any recommendations? How are the beaches?! The reason why I ask is that I’m kind of afraid to be left behind The discussion is at the moment car vs plane. Car means I’m coming plane means I get to spend the weekend at a friends place. Which is, don’t get me wrong, great but I would rather come along…

In NSW for example are just a few doggie beaches (compared to the number of beaches they have in the first place) and almost none in Sydney – again, compared to the actual number of beaches… So I was manly wondering how the situation in and around Melbourne is!? I already found a BLOG where is says that dogs are only allowed during certain times of the year but I don’t know which beach it is.

Thanks for your help! Teal’c

Doggie Holiday at Culburra Beach NSW

Master Teal'c — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:23:53 +0000

My family and I had a short holiday down south… Culburra beach is approximately a 3 hour drive away from Sydney and more than just beautiful if you want to escape the big city. (here is the google maps link) My dad found, as usual, a beautiful holiday house right next to the beach where I could stay as well. It was a very dog friendly place – with doggie houses outside but no apparent rules attached to it. The best thing for me was that the family before us was there with a female dog. I tell you – she left a awesome scent behind! It kept me busy for quite a while until we hit the beach… There were no rules there either. Just a very long and very empty beach… We met a couple of dogs, one jogger and 2 other tourists but that was it. So can only recommend going there, probably off season. My guess is that it is a lot more busy during the holidays and weekends. But heh – busy in Australia is not exactly “busy” to other countries standards…

The best for my daddy was that the whole house was “automated” little touch screen were there to turn pretty much everything on or off… Hours of entertainment for him as well. Oh – and the BOSE sound system throughout the house! Here is the Link to the place. Luxury executive beach house in CULBURRA BEACH, NSW

the view from the terrace

oh boy - so much playing!!

our holiday house

yeah - bring it on!

ALL MINE!

me with my happiest doggie grin

huge beach - just us!