We had a weekend at the beach planned with my parents. While we were there I had made reservations to surprise Steve for our anniversary with a horseback riding experience. He has never been on a horse before and has mentioned that he would like to sometime. I was able to find a company that was about 20 miles away from where we were staying.
We had reservations for 10 in the morning on Saturday. We left the house we were staying at and headed there and I contacted the guy when we were close and he said he was having trailer trouble and had misplaced my number...not starting out well. So instead of 10 we were now looking at noon. We didn't want to drive back to the house so we waited around until the outlet mall opened and did a little retail action. Not a bad distraction. We called him again after 11 and he said he was heading toward the beach and we could come earlier then noon.
So we got there and he was starting to unload the 3 horses. When we saw the 2 horses that we'd be riding we saw one was a little bigger and both Steve and I figured that was his horse. His name was Red and Steve started petting and bonding with him. Then we were informed that I was riding that horse. Apparently he needs a little more experience rider then the female named Astonia, which Steve was going to ride.
We started out going through the dunes and down onto the beach for awhile. When we came back we went up through the dunes again on some trails back by a bay and then we came back out onto the beach for the return. It was about a 7.5 mile ride and lasted almost 2 hours. He ended up extending it a little because he felt bad for the delay we had earlier.
Bill was very nice and very personable. We enjoyed our conversations with him while we rode and at times he'd even hang back and leave us alone. We liked how he wasn't so rigid about everything and he pretty much let us do what we wanted to do, within reason. He had my camera the whole time and took many pictures of us. We would totally recommend him and will most likely contact him again in the future. I've listed his website at the bottom.
As for Steve, he thoroughly enjoyed himself and said he'd totally do it again. He would just prefer a bigger horse next time. At first his horse wouldn't get out of a trot and I was laughing so hard watching him trotting down the beach. But then he got her into a gallop and he really liked running.
It was beautiful to be on the beach riding a horse. I've rode horses in the past but never on the beach and it was quite the experience.
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