About Face! Day 3

Dena & Bella

This day, we woke to overcast, high cloud cover & No wind!  It was wonderful!  To top it off, Dena & her mare Bella made it to camp!  Bella & Farah met two-years ago, Bella on her first trail ride & Farah on one of her first trail rides with other horses.  The two mares, both standoffish to others, found a friend in each other.  Their riders too!  :-)

Away north we go~!

Farah by now was confident enough to take the "water" side as we turned north :-)  Bella took it all in with perfect aplomb!  On the return, Dena moved Bella into her beautiful Canter & the two of them looked so relaxed!  Since it was Bella's first time out,  we headed back to camp mid-day. 

Morning route north, evening "Loop" south

That evening after dinner I rode out with some new friends who I'd met on-line, but never ridden with.  They knew where to access the inland trail from the south jetty back in the dunes to camp!  Rachelle had a beautiful off-the-track thoroughbred mare!  What a site to see her big muscular read-end in a nice hand gallop down the beach!  Farah wanted to go too, she hit her big trot & we came up on them at over 13-mph, still trotting :-)  On the way back, there were riders who wanted to walk, Farah was full of herself, so we went on alone.  Near camp I didn't know which turn to take, so went back out to the beach when I heard the big horn on the truck signal dinner in camp - still to our north!

Later that evening~

After dinner, I asked Butch if he'd be willing to get some video of us & a couple good pictures.  The light was fading fast, the tide starting to come in again - more wind, but oh so beautiful...

The tittle of the above video - "About Face" tells the tale!  :-)

Our girl started paying attention~

Finally, I wanted a gallop - so we took off to the south -

In just under a mile - we circled back toward Butch.

It felt amazing - room to run - not as fast as we'd both have liked, but a nice long run - FUN!  Farah was more willing to walk in the water now, cooling off.  All too soon, the setting sun went behind the clouds.   The wind felt colder & we headed back to camp~

Another end, to another day in Paradise~