Photography & Digital ArtJAN 29, 2015

Adventure Ben, From Pound Pup Too Travel Blog Dog

My name is Ben, but people also call me Benji.

I am a rescued chap, so I think I’m 4 years old - 24 in dog years - but some say I have the soul of a grumpy old man.

I live in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, and I have two humans who enjoy travelling. For some reason they always insist that I join them on these trips.

It isn’t all that bad; I get to smell new odours, pee on different things and run through a variety of landscapes.

So, I decided to blog about it.

More info: adventure-ben.blogspot.com

The journey

Southwell

The humans are always complaining about the price of petrol, so they are trying to be more inventive with our adventures.

That’s the nice way of saying they’re being cheap.

Instead of driving 60km “all the way” to the coast, we went looking for a picnic spot on the Southwell road. About 3km on the gravel path, which leads to Port Alfred, we found a place where the Kowie River flows over a weir (some barrier thing).

It’s perfect.

Deep enough to cool down; shallow enough to stick by the humans’ side. They say it’s annoying if I can’t join them in deep water; maybe it’s the anxious barking? Who knows.

We saw some baboons and, as usual, the small human freaked out even before I could think of chasing them.

A little bit further on the same road we found an abandoned church. It’s beautiful and I weed on it.

Now it's mine.

The Adventure:
Place: Southwell road, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Activities:
• Me: Swimming, looking cute while running, eying the baboons and
fetching sticks (because apparently I break toys)
• Humans: Picnicking, reading, splashing in the river and avoiding baboons.