The most expensive dog in the world is reunited with us!!

After surviving:

- Numerous injections and vets visits to prepare him for Australia
- A last-minute eye ulcer after getting long grass stuck in his eye at mum and dad’s house, requiring drops 3 times a day
- A 24-hour flight stuck a crate like a contortionist (“if you can get him down to a metre in length then we can fit him in the standard cage”)
- 30 days in quarantine in Sydney
In which time he managed to:

- have an eye infection due to his ulcer treatment
- be depressed
- vomit his dinner
- get a cough which they though was kennel cough, hence he spent the last week in solitary confinement
AND
- A cancelled flight up to Mackay from Sydney, so we got him a day later than expected

We have finally been reunited with Ben!!
We were taken to a freight warehouse at Mackay airport, and I spotted a pair of eyes looking out of a crate nearby, then the most exited dog ever, with his tail wagging about 100 times a second, was released and came hurtling towards us!!
Because we have a hire car with a self-contained boot, then he had to sit with me in the back seat as we drove to our first destination – Far Beach (named due to the fact that when the tide is out, which it was, then it is about a mile to walk to the sea!). They also play beach volleyball here – Mark, what is the regulation length of women’s beach volleyball shorts??!