Thursday, October 20, 2016

Bark Ranger Patrol - The cost of clean up

We had a pawsome day today - first we went to the beach and we are happy to report it is starting to look more normal. The king tides have pushed all the sea grass up high on the beach - hopefully to make the base for future sand dunes. The Dweeb was pretty pleased with himself when he found a nice smelly horseshoe crab - personally I like the rotting sea grass better for stink factor :)

Then Mom said we had better head off of do some Bark Ranger Patrols and check on my other parks. First we went to MY Abbey Hanna Cowspotdog Park - sadly many of the boardwalks have been damaged and the one path through the sand dunes you could take to the beach was just swarming with surfers going to and from the surf. Now personally they don't bother me at all but Dweeb sees those surf boards and just freezes on the spot - way to scary for him. The path we take to the lake was also closed due to all the tree damage so we didn't really get to check out much of this park at all.

Next we headed to MY Dutton Island Cowspotdog Preserve - we didn't even get past the gate here as the road crosses a causeway and it had been severely damaged and is unpassable - sigh.

Mom said we would give one more park a try and we headed off to MY Fort Caroline Cowspotdog at the Timucuan Preserve. The Fort itself seemed to have survived just fine but there was a lot of tree damage and there was only one trail was open.  This is also where the Spanish Cowspotdog Pond is and that too was completely closed due to storm damage.  So all in all....... MY parks have not feared very well but thankfully my trusty staff are hard at work and I am sure MY parks will be back to normal in no time.
Denny found a crabby patty
Rotting sea grass smells better !
Visiting Fort Cowspotdog
Picture perfect with the fort behind us
The Bark Ranger Board of FAME!
YES - there we are!
Inside the Fort
Fort Cowspotdog seems to have survived the storm

19 comments:

  1. Dat stinks bout all da storm damage.

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  2. You guys look great. Your mom must be working hard at brushing and grooming both of you.

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  3. Well it looks like there's a lot of cleanup to do! We hope you have significant staff available to assign to all that work! Maybe by next week some of it will be fixed. You'll have to stay on top of the progress to make sure.

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  4. Hari OM
    Great work on the bark ranger patrol boys... bit by bit everything will fade into normality again. Hugs and wags, YAM-aunty xxx

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  5. That's a lot of damage. We hope it'll be rectified very soon!

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  6. Good for you to be out patrolling and monitoring the cleanup! love the bark ranger board, such a great idea

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  7. Such a shame that there is so much damage, but we are sure with your help things will start to improve with time. You boys do your work as bark rangers very well.

    Woos - Lightning and Misty

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  8. Hurricanes sure do a lot of damage! We will be happy when hurricane season officially comes to an end!

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  9. That's so cool that they have a picture of you guys at your park! Well... ONE of your parks! I'll bet the damage will all be dealt with pretty quick!
    Yours sincerely,
    Margaret Thatcher

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  10. Great photos, I luffs to see you handsome fellas out checking up on your beaches…great job!
    Oh, have you been over to Bella, Roxy and Dui's blog? I finks they found your missing sand!
    Loves and licky kisses
    Princess Leah xxx

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  11. That's too bad about the storm damage. Hopefully things will get back to normal soon. I would have loved to have been there to help you with that crabby pattie!

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  12. How awful about all of the storm damage. We're happy to see you on the board of fame☺

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  13. we cross our paws that your parks will welcome you soon ... hugs to all the people who work so hard to remove the leftovers of wild matthew...

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  14. With you two snoopervising the clean up it will be done in no time.
    Love those crabs! We don't have those.
    Elliot and Cricket x

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  15. It's a good thing you are checking out your areas for damage!

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  16. You two are famous now! Hehe very cute pictures, thank you for sharing with us :)

    Kim


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  17. So much storm damage to mother nature, but at least you are out and about and get to see everything! Love Dolly

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  18. We hope the parks will be up and running soon. The trash people are still slowly getting too and picking up debris out here.

    Bell Fur Zoo

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  19. OMD! You are on the Bark Ranger board of fame - how cool!!

    Your Pals,

    Murphy & Stanley

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