Ocean Shores & Pacific Beach

After visiting Stewart’s Memorial Park in Aberdeen, we climbed back in our truck for the anticipated beach day. This was going to be Jozee’s first visit to the beach and we were looking forward to giving her the experience.

Jozee's 1st day at the beach

If you live in Washington, I assume you’ve visited Ocean Shores and possibly Pacific Beach. The city of Ocean Shores is like any ocean-side city and is a busy place with cute little tourist shops you can enjoy, along with putt-putt golf, go carts and other activities. We like to visit the little shops and buy some taffy while we’re there but on this day we really only wanted to play on the beach with Jozee. After a quick stop in Ocean Shores, we moved along to our favorite beach in that area: Pacific Beach.

We enjoy Pacific Beach for two reasons: we spent a lot of time there years ago with my mother-in-law whenever she wanted to go to the beach so it’s always been our go-to place and it’s just not usually that busy of a beach.

On this day, Jozee’s first beach experience, it was the month of May and we were extremely lucky that the weather turned out so nice. If you live in Washington, you also know that nice weather inland means nothing when you head to a Washington beach. Sometimes it can be 20 degrees cooler and very windy – making a day at the beach not so much fun.

But today it was beautiful.

And Jozee absolutely loved the beach, even if she didn’t appreciate why the water kept moving toward her so quickly.

Digging: a dog's favorite pasttime

Jozee spotted some seagulls

She didn’t play in the water much, but she enthusiastically dug in the sand. It must have been so much fun for her to be allowed to dig as much as she wanted, given the fact that she’d been told “no” many times at home. J

It was a gorgeous day at the beach and there is no doubt, Jozee enjoyed every moment of it.

Jozee had a good day...