Finish Short Walk Series

Today we continued with the Short Walk Series we started yesterday. It rained this morning so everything was very wet, but we were prepared so no problem there.
We did two short walks, the first alongside the Run riverbanks,

Half way to the other side of the river.

The boys were there before us.

Like always Toby wanted to go in, but because the banks were a little steep he didn't dare to.

Brego was very interested in the sheep on the other side of the small river.

We were joking because when he was tested in France 2 months ago he wasn't interested at all. Funny thing is that Toby has got strong herding skills but ignores sheep that we walk by in real life.
We logged the cache and after that Brego still was staring at the sheep and the sheep were staring back.

So with two sheep dog and sheep available we needed to make a nice picture of course.

On the way back to our car I made a small movie of all the boys having fun running around in sand, water and mud.

The second and last walk we did lead us through a forest area, we had to follow the signposts of the "Sprankel" walk.

On some of the signposts screws were attached with a number on it, so we had to investigate all of the signposts.

Click here to read more details about the cache adventures of today.

Cache Walks

Today we went for three short walks not to far from our hometown.
The first walks was about 3Km's long and took us through farm-area.

The dogs enjoyed the area a lot where they could walk of the leash for the most part.

They sniffed and sniffed, you can imagine the interesting smells out there of dogs, cows, and horses.

And drank water side by side.

The second walk we did was in a wet area besides a small river called Dommel.
This is a reserve so the dogs needed to stay on the leash, no problem at all. So Brego is the first to be caught and put on the leash.

Then it's Toby's turn.

Walk side by side by the river.

And then posing for a picture, which is hard with dogs that love to enter water even when they are on a leash.

But we managed to take a picture after all.

The third and last walk of today was a 1,5 Km walk around a little marsh.
If you want to know more geocaching details read here.
At the end of the day the boys needed a rest, and that's what they did.

Visit puppies Maastricht

Today we went to the breeder of Brego in Maastricht, she has some new puppies which share the same father with Brego. On the next picture you can see all five puppies in the colors Black, Brown and Fawn.

Toby is always hoping that we don't bring another of those puppies home, just kidding of course.

After we left the breeder we decided to go for a nice walk in the neighbourhood of Maastricht, it was a nice walk in a area with hills which is very rare in the Netherlands. You can read the details here.
On the way back a lot of snow fell down from the sky and when we returned home I made the next picture in the back garden.

The first Snowfall of the Season

This morning it snowed a little bit, Toby loves this a lot and what he likes to do the most is lay down with his belly in the snow while some more snow falls on him.

Brego sort of ignores the snow, he just keeps on harassing the rabbits, like he always does with or without snow.

And then later on Toby is still lays on the same spot.

We went for a cache today that was a 9 km walk in a nice area not to far from our home. Because of the snowfall it was extra beautiful.

The dogs were sniffing and sniffing, this always happens when snow has fallen, I'm wondering why. Perhaps they have to work harder to spot senses?

We found a hiding place for when it would snow a lot, but we didn't need it today.

The sun was shining and we really enjoyed the walk and the nice environment.

We walked through wood land...

And through moor land, where especially Brego and Toby went a little bit crazy as the next movie shows.


When we arrived at the last way point we ran into some Scottish Highlanders that were blocking the footpath.

First we had to pass the cattle grid and there was no place for the dogs to pass, so we had to carry them over the grid.

It is advised to keep at least 25 meters distance between the herd and not to walk through a herd, we decided to go back to the big path.

But once we were on the big path we saw that they were close by that path as well.

We decide to pass by them anyhow, since they didn't try to scare us away yet.

On of the young cows was really interested in us, you can see him behind me, but we decided not to wait upon his arrival and continue with our walk towards the cache.

We found the cache at 15:00.

And the guys where guarding the area while I logged our visit.

After this walk we went to Belgium to pick up some caches, you can read all about this on our geocaching weblog here.

Braambosch, Riethoven

Today we combined two caches in a forest about 5 Kms from our home. We never visited this forest before, so geocaching brings us in areas we wouldn't visit otherwise and that's very nice indeed.

We walked around that forest for about 3 hours or so and were able to discover two caches. Read here for more details about these caches.

The area was a combination of woodlands and acres as is visible on the next picture.

And here you can see me discovering one of the pieces we needed to find for one of the caches.

When we discovered the second cache the sun was set and it was almost dark when we returned to our car.

Achel caching continued

After Mila and Tommy were picked up by their parents we decided to continue our quest in Achel Belgium.
We again enjoyed beautiful walking trails

The dogs where happy because a little stream was flowing here from which they could drink a little bit of fresh water.


We discovered 5 caches in Achel, for details go to our geocaching weblog here.
We really enjoyed the nice surroundings, here a bridge over a small river.

And we discovered another wood carving in one of the trees.

Caching with Mila

Mila and Tommy came to sleepover last night. Saturday morning Tommy had to play soccer and Rob went with him. Mila and I went caching with the doggies.

The cache was hidden in a little forest that is located in a industrial area.

In the area also a small lake is present. On this side the dogs didn't enter when we walked on the opposite side Toby did.

Mila was taking care of the GPS-receiver to guide the way.

We had to visit 10 way points at which we had to answer questions.

We managed to find the cache. Here Toby and Brego beside the cache box.

And here Mila is holding the cache box. She said geo-caching is fun to do and for sure she will join us on another cache adventure in the future.