This month, Seabrook celebrated its 5th Annual Doggie Days event! The long-anticipated day of canine merriment proved to once again be one of the most enjoyable events held at Seabrook! Hosted for the second year in a row by Ann Kjelsberg, owner of The Salty Dog here at Seabrook, Doggie Days showed off just how dog-friendly our beach town can be!

With every size, shape, and breed of dog you can imagine, the “Bark in the Park” festivities of Doggie Days were especially fun this year. With numerous games, contests, and prizes given to dogs with unique talents such as “Best Kisser”, “Best Trick”, and “Best Barker”, everyone had an opportunity to participate. Also, special thanks to Seabrook homeowner and professional photographer Morgan of Morgan J. Miller Photography who provided a whimsical beach back-drop for both doggie and people portraits during the event.

The weather was perfect and ALL of the proceeds from the event benefited the North Beach PAWS animal shelter in Ocean Shores.

If you didn’t have a chance to join us last weekend, we hope you will enjoy the slideshow below of the festivities. A big thanks to everyone who came out, it was great meeting so many adorable pups on the park!

For those of you planning a trip to Seabrook in the coming months, check out our events calendar for upcoming fun happenings on the Washington Coast.

Enjoy the pictures!

You may not know it, but Norwegian heritage is an important part of Washington coast’s history. In fact, many of the area’s first settlers and coastal residents were Norwegian immigrants.

To honor this, one of our Seabrook homeowners, Ann Kjelsberg (also owner of our favorite doggie shop, The Salty Dog) is organizing Seabrook’s first annual Syttende Mai Celebration! The festivity will take place on Saturday, May 14. Syttende Mai literally means the “Seventeenth of May” in Norwegian and is the celebration of Norwegian Independence.

Since its inception, Seabrook has had strong Norwegian ties including one woman named Dorothy Anderson whose nearly 100 year-old cabin sits at the North end of Crescent Park here at Seabrook. In addition, both Ann and our Town Founder, Casey Roloff trace their roots to Norwegian immigrants.

So how does one celebrate Syttende Mai? In Norway, children parade through the community with flags and often make stops at homes of senior citizens, war memorials, and other important community landmarks. As the parade passes, bystanders often join in and follow the parade through the town. People typically wear red, white and blue ribbons, wave flags, and often wear a traditional folk garment, called bunad. There’s plenty of singing, blowing whistles, and shaking rattles as the parade fills the streets.

We hope you (and your dog!) will join us at the Dorothy Anderson Cabin at 10am on Saturday, May 14 for a parade through the streets of Seabrook. The parade will end at The Salty Dog for coffee and Norwegian pastries courtesy of Casey’s Grandmother, Sam Engelquist! You don’t have to be Norwegian to join the fun and everyone’s welcome! We do hope that you’ll dress up in red, white, and blue and celebrate the Norwegian heritage of the Washington Coast!

What: Syttende Mai Norwegian Celebration
Where: Dorothy Anderson Cabin/Crescent Park, Seabrook, WA
When: 10:00am, Saturday, May 14

For the 4th year in a row, Seabrook’s Doggie Days proved to be one of the most enjoyable events held at Seabrook. Over 50 dog owners showed up with their pups for a day of fun and games on Crescent Park and had a great time.

This year’s Doggie Days was organized by one of our homeowners, Ann Kjelsberg, who is opening a doggie shop at Seabrook over the summer. Doggies from all different breeds and sizes took part in shows, games, contests, and won prizes in many categories including – smartest dog, best trained dog, fastest eating dog, etc.

The weather could not have been more perfect as a bunch of well-dressed pouches ruled over Seabrook all weekend. This year’s record attendance was a great preview for “Salty Dog”, the new Seabrook doggie gift shop that will be opening its doors very soon.

If you didn’t have a chance to join us last weekend, you’re definitely in the right place! Below is a very cute slideshow of most dogs gracing Seabrook with their presence for the 2010 Doggie Days. A big thanks to everyone that shared their pictures with us, it was great meeting so many cute pups on the park.

For those of you planning a trip to Seabrook in the coming months, check out our events calendar for upcoming fun happenings on the Washington Coast.

Enjoy the pictures!

The 5th Annual Easter Egg Hunt took place last weekend on Crescent park and was truly a great time for everyone there! Around a hundred kids from all over the Pacific Northwest raced around Seabrook’s biggest green grass park hunting for Easter eggs and other small treasures. Three lucky egg hunters found Golden Eggs which were strategically placed in harder to find areas.

The weather looked gloomy right until the point when the Easter egg hunt was supposed to start. Then it cleared up and families with their kids, dogs, egg baskets, and cameras spent a fun couple of hours around the park and around Seabrook. We had many guests staying at some of our vacation rentals, as well as Seabrook homeowners that are by now regulars at these events. Easter Bunny was there too to take pictures with this year’s egg hunters and put everyone in a good mood with his goofy-looking costume.

We have gathered a bunch of pictures from some of the families present at the event, and are posting them here for you in case you couldn’t be there. Once again, Happy Easter to all and we hope to see you at the 6th Annual Easter Egg Hunt at Seabrook next year!

At the end of June, all the families at Seabrook came out to enjoy a fun day at Crescent Park full of games and laughter. Little kids were zipping by finishing gunny-sack relays in record times while their parents struggled to keep up with the pace. Some played ping-pong, others attempted badminton, and some just enjoyed the sunshine. But it wasn’t until tug of war came around when the adults showed off their true strength in pulling, slipping, growling, funny-face-making, and everything else you can imagine happening at such a face-off.

The best part is that we have it all on camera. An exclusive, all-encompassing slideshow is at your fingertips with the click of a mouse. And there is always something fun to do at Seabrook. This last weekend the third annual Fun Run took place and the weather could not have been more perfect! For more on how the run went and who the winners were, check back later this week as we will have it all right here at the Seabrook Blog.

We upload all the pictures on our flickr website so stop by anytime and throw a glance at what is happening at Seabrook. If you were lucky enough to be out on the coast, maybe you will be in one of the photos. This weekend we are making beachy arts and crafts at the park. Next week the glorious children’s bike parade will rule our beach town. Until then, however, browse our sets and galleries for the best out of Seabrook!