CadiWaterDog

Yet another busy week, with Monday night spent travelling around north Wales, initally lookng for something to eat and some petrol at 11.00 at night - nothing to be had in Caernarfon, so ended up going back to Bangor to Tesco where we had to have the last couple of sandwiches of the day - no such thing as a big Mac or KFC at that time of night!

We then went down to Dolgellau police Station where Sian was search manager and phil and Flash got to go out looking for someone who had probably just decided to go away to the seaside! We all got home about 6 in morning, so we all slept late, even Flash! Usually he's so institutionalised that when someone flushes the loo in the morning, he thinks it's breakfast time!

Sian's been on nights this week, and phil's been at work, so things have beena bit boring - just the usual beach walk every day. Today though, Sian and i went to the police station in Llanrwst to tell them about our adventures, and to tell them that I keep finding a sniff in a lake. After the last smell I smelled, and didn't do anything about, and the person turned up where I sniffed it a few weeks later, Sian felt that she couldn't ignore me telling her about a smell if it happened again. Anyway, when I found a smell in a lake a few weeks ago, she got all hot and bothered, and eventually, this week, told the police. The policeman was excited and is going to try to organise divers to work with us! All exciting stuff - tell you more this week!

Woooooow it's been such a long time since I had time to write! I hope you've all been missing me!

Ben busy training since I last blogged - lots going on, all going really well, with some interesting stuff, which I'll tell you about in due course. We're about ready to make the transition into the boat now, and we have all the gear we need ... boat, drysuit -for me, that is, Sian's still waiting for hers, and Phil of course isn't going to fall in! No, I'm kidding, I don't need one, but I have my lifeacket from Ruffwear, and Sian has her extremely flattering - and non-claustrophobic one - from Aqua-tek in Denbigh, just waiting for SARDA badges on it, and Phil of course isn't going to fall in! We spoke to Uncle Yoda on Saturday, and he explained to us how to do it - well, he gave us various options as to how to do it, and true to form, we've chosed the KISS method - keep it simple, stupid!!!

Biggest problem we've had recently - other than the fact that Sian and Phil need to retire from paid work and do this full time - is that Llyn Padarn has had too much toxic algae for us to work there - something called something like anaboerida spirodes - blue green algae which is flowering Nice! It's too dodgy for me to go in the water, as it would make me ill, and maybe die, and as they've invested such a lot of time in my training, they don't want to lose me ... nothing to do with me being a precious pet of course!!!

Anyway, I'll write again to let you know how the boating is going! Maybe now that it's started raining again the flowering algae will go away! Hope so!

See ya peeps x