Beach, Burnouts and Brumbies

Yesterday was one of the best days of my life!!
We drove down to the farm with a slightly miss led detour for a hay net, and loaded the horses onto the float.
Easier said then done... it was about 15 minutes of Sebby going in and then back out then in then out how fun... Sebastian, Sebastian, Sebastian. With the both Megs and Seb in place we were off to the beach.
A quick stop off at the Dublin bakery to get lunch then onward to the 'riding arena'.

At the beach we unload the horses, give them a brush and saddle them up. The horses owners went for a bit of a ride... then it was our turn!!
We jump on (some of us more skilledly then others, Americans are just show-offs).
And off we go for a bit of a walk and then before long we were off into a canter.
The wind in our.....helmets, the sand at their hooves, it was amazing....truly amazing, I've never felt such a rush...adrenalin pumping the feeling of floating and the little niggle of fear in the back of your mind telling you at any moment you could fall off.
They were driving the beside us (got some killa photos and videos) and they clocked us at 40km/ph awesome!!

I've told you about the beach and our so called brumbies (just needed another B word) so on to the burn outs...Well the others were off riding again and we wanted to get some footage of them so we jumped in Stanley (my car, yes its a boy) and took him for a spin on the beach. The crazy American was driving. They were riding the wrong direction for us to get good shots so I decided to sit on the window ledge and video them from over the car roof... talk about thrilling. Once we got a few shots we went for a joy ride. I hung on for dear life and the American drove well like an American!

Then... it was my turn! It was awesome it felt like you were gliding. The tide was out and the sand was hard with a thin layer of water covering it so we took advantage and went crazy.... I DRIFTED!! and didn't wreck my car, it was so, so, so cool and my car was caked in sand, seaweed and saltwater.

The horses were stuffed we were stuffed and we were ready for home... the horses had a roll in the sand, brushed them down and begun the rigorous efforts of loading the horses onto the float. We packed up everything else and were on our way home. We get back to the farm and get the horses fed. The make our way to the car wash. High pressure squirt a major foam scrub then another squirt followed by dinner at subway- for us not the car.

All in all an awesome day!!! I'm still recovering, and so is Stanley.