Supertide - No Beach Running for the Dogs - But we all had a Lovely Walk in the Grassy Sand Dunes

A while ago we took the dogs to one of our local beaches.
Nothing unusual about this, we often take them to the beach, but this day we hadn't bothered to check the tide.

If you squint you can just about see the sea - in the far distance 

Well, we'd checked the tide, we knew it would be high, but that didn't concern us because the beach we'd chosen to drive to always has a lot of sand even when the tide is very high.

Steps, lots of steps, leading across the grassy dunes

Not so this day though.
Apparently the tide was a supertide, which meant there was absolutely no beach at all for us to enjoy, or more importantly for the dogs to enjoy.

Oh dear! Someone has been lighting fires

As we'd bothered to drive to the beach, we decided not to turn around and go straight back to the house, but to go for a walk anyway. A walk among the sand dunes that border the golf course by the beach.

The sea, the grassy dunes, and the golf course

It was very early in the morning, the weather was dull and damp, but we still enjoyed the walk, so did the dogs, and we weren't the only eejits up and about - there was a man playing golf as we wandered across a couple of the holes.
We weren't invading the greens, the route is open for walkers.

We saw lots of wild mushrooms - wish we knew which were edible

Anyway, for a change I didn't shoot lots of photos of the dogs running and playing on the beach, instead I took some photos of the scenery and things I saw on our beach dunes walk.

We all enjoyed our walk along the sand dunes, the grass, and the gold course, although I'm sure the dogs would have prefered to chase their ball and run on the sand.
Mr.R and me really like walking, which is why we like living in County Durham where there are lots of lovely places to walk in the countryside and by the sea. Our love of walking is also one of the reasons we got a dog, and then another dog - you can't not go for regular walks when there are dogs in your family.
Golf is a different thing though, neither of us like golf. I say, golf - why spoil a good walk? Hahaha!
Do you enjoy walking?
Do you play golf?