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Digging, Bad Habit Or Just Seeing The END


One thing I LOVE the most being here in Maui, Hi is the BEACH.
I LOVE to swim, ride the waves and jump into the ocean to retrieve my toy.
I always have a PAWSOME time at the beach.
I’m also fond of the beach sand especially the golden sand on my favorite beach.
Remember when I ate some sand. I remember it well and I learned my lesson. Never Again!
Well, I learned another fun way to enjoy the sand …
Yes, DIGGING!!!
Probably you’ll say its normal as most dogs dig.
I never dug before and just recently discovered the FUN of Digging.
Every time we go to the beach my mom asks me to stop but I could not help it.
DIG! DIG! DIG! She asked, Why Do I DIG?
4 Major Reasons Why Dogs Dig and my rebuttal response …
1) Dogs will often dig out of boredom.
Are you kidding…ME, bored.  How can I be bored. I am never bored when I am on the beach.

2) Dogs dig to find relief from the heat.
Mmmmm maybe as deeper layers of sand is cooler.
Yes, I do feel it when I put my face in it but its a temporary relief.
Jumping into the ocean is the best way to cool off.

3) Dogs are toy savers.
Why will I bury my toy in the sand?
Just does not make sense as my toy is my water beach buddy.

4) Digging is often used as a means of escape.
Escape to go WHERE?
Well, let me rephrase it … Digging is often used to SEE …
See The Place WHERE a New Adventure will take place.
It might come to a surprise to many of you but you’ll find out on tomorrow’s post, Jan. 29th.

Lots of Golden L♥VE n Woofs
SUGAR

I’m joining this post to Monday Mischief for being mischievously digging on the beach but I certainly have good intent to WHY?

Woof! Woof! At The Beaches Of Maui


It’s been 295 days since I’ve enjoyed the beauty of Maui, HI. As many of you can guess, my favorite is the OCEAN. Maui has hundreds of beaches, black sand, golden sand, red sand and white sand. These beaches are excellent for swimming and other water sports like snorkeling, surfing, stand up paddle, and windsurfing. Many of these beaches are also great for just hanging out. I’ve visited many of these beaches. My (loud) WOOF WOOF became my peeps indicator if the beach has passed my Golden Satisfaction.

I’m sharing my Top 5 Favorite Maui Beaches.

5. H.A. Baldwin Beach Park: The first white sand beach I visited. It is located in Paia, North Shore Maui known for its wave. You can just imagine when I saw the ocean for the very first time … Golden Zoomies. I tackled the waves immediately. Oh when its windy, its really WINDY.
It’s a long beach. Mom and I ran/walked the whole stretch of the beach twice. Some parts of the beach on certain times were scares of people and mom did not feel safe to continue to run/walk. Towards the end of the beach, there’s a baby lagoon and it’s red sand. It’s beautiful and of course I gave it a shot to swim but due to the sand and wind it was not fully enjoyable. My Halloween Photo Shoot was taken from this beach.

4. D.T. Fleming Beach Park: It’s actually my mom’s favorite beach. It is located on the West Side of Maui, north of the Ritz-Carlton. It’s a beach we often pass when we walk the Kapalua Trail. Usually, the waves are BIG which is good for body boarders and surfers. I’m not a fan of water accessories so no boogie boards for me. This beach is FUN just to hangout too. You’ll hear happy screams from the boogie boarders. My e-card Holiday Photo shoot was shot on this beach.

3. Kapalua Bay Beach: It was the first of Maui’s beaches to be named “America’s Best Beach” in 1991. A beautiful beach that we often pass on our walk. It is a well maintained beach which is great for snorkeling. Lots of the reef protects much of the area from high waves and strong currents. Thus, its not a good beach for me to swim. With the amazing view, we often hang out on this beach. My Shaka (Hangloose) photo was taken from this beach.

2. Ironwood Beach: Featured beach on my post Wish Granted, ChuckIt to the Test. It is a small and secluded white sand beach. Beautiful view of the island of Molokai. It can get very windy and the waves are usually high (popular for surfers and boogie boarders). Golden FUN for ME!
The waves might be high but it gets gentle as it comes to the shore.
You can just imagine the intensity of my WOOF! WOOF!
My I Believe I Can Fly photo was taken from this beach.

1. Ali’i Kahekili Nui Ahumanu Beach Park: It is also known as Kehekili Beach, Airport Beach and North Ka’anapali Beach which stretches north from the Black Rock.
My FAVORITE Beach!
The photo I entered to the MHS 2013 calendar which is also my 2013 Holiday Card was taken from this beach. It is a lively beach where many enjoy snorkeling, canoeing and stand up paddle. During the days I swim, a group of local seniors swim too
(its amazing to watch them as they swim the whole stretch, just like I do). 
Fun part is when we reach the North side of the Black Rock, we always touch a rock.
WHY? I LOVE this beach … The Sand is GOLDEN!

Hope you enjoyed this post especially for those of you that are in the midst of COLD Winter.
Hope it provides you some warmth and feel a slice of the island paradise life.

If you visit Maui make sure to check out these beaches.
Hope you enjoyed another edition of Sugar’s Golden Tours, Beaches of Maui

Visit my Golden Tours Page to check out previous posts.

Lots of Golden L♥VE n Woofs
SUGAR

Wish Granted, ChuckIt To The Test


Don’t you LOVE when your wishes comes true? One of my wishes came true last Thursday.
I’ll tell you more but …
first I would like to share that I had to say good bye to my favorite water toy.  Well actually it broke last October, my mom planned to put it back together but this weekend she informed me that it’s useless. Mom actually took me shopping last October and bought me a new toy. There’s not many choices even though there are 4 pet stores here (they carry the same brands).
Mom ended up buying me ChuckIt Water Rope Toy.

It’s been 3 months since I’ve been using ChuckIt at the beach.
So far it’s been a good water toy.
Last Thursday we put ChuckIt to a water wave test as my wish was granted.
If you are friends with me in FB, I posted a photo similar to this …

YEAH!!! Do you see the big wave behind me? Do you see a girl boogie boarding?
I pass this beach many times on our Kapalua Trail walks.
We always stop and sit on the sand to watch the surfers and boogie boarders.
It’s a small beach and located on private residence/villas.
I always makes a lot of very loud Woof! Woof! WHY? I want to check out the wave and swim.

When I say I Woof Woof a lot and loud, I mean a LOT and LOUD.
Mom finally granted my wish and luckily we brought ChuckIt with us.

ChuckIt is a water toy that definitely FLOATS( there are some water toys that are not good floaters).
Good thing that mom selected the bright orange rather than the other color, green.
I can surely see it.
The rope is helpful for my peeps when throwing the toy into the ocean.
In the beginning, the material was hard for me to bite down but it seems to have gotten softer from being in the water.
I can carry ChuckIt in multiple ways, middle, sides and from the rope.

As I mentioned, I had ChuckIt for almost 3 months and the material is holding well.
However, two sewn stitches on the body is starting to come out.
Also, the rope attached on the toy is starting to fray.

We sure put ChuckIt to the test.
With the high waves and bright color orange ChuckIt got lost several times and
I could not find it. Good thing ChuckIt floats back to the surface.

It was soooooo much Golden FUN! I wish to swim again at this beach.

Lots of Golden L♥VE n Woofs
SUGAR

I’m joining this post to Monday Mischief for being mischievous on my LOUD Woof! Woof!.

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