Not so successful beach trip!

[angblue]

Well we went to the beach yesterday & never got to see the sea yet! LOL
To explain we had to cross a 2m stream which was about 2ft deep in places as the bridge wasn't safe for neds & blue in his wisdom thought it was a roaring torrent of a river & refused point blank to cross!
We got brandy over......she cat leaped it & almost flattened my OH LOL! I tried everything with blue even OH took brandy out of sight & he put his toes in & jumped back just as quick.
They have never crossed water before & I can understand why he was scared but I'm still dissapointed he didn't trust me enough to go over
We tried other routes but the dunes were far too steep so it looks like this is the safest way to go. We don't have any streams near by to practice at just a huge river across the road!
Anyone got any ideas on how to overcome this
Other than that they loaded well & behaved well in a new place there was no silliness at all & I dare say blue could have said "no way!" by rearing & doing all manner of daft stuff but he didn't so I should be pleased with that ;D
Here's the offending RIVER LOL!!!!!!!

[giftgirl]

lol at least brandy went over
blue looks really sweet in that pic!
nice river LOL
i am sure blue does trust you, but if he has never crossed a river before, he probably wouldnot have crossed it even if he trusted you loads.
giftgirl xx

[wozzer]

I think Zoe RA helped someone get their horse through water and pics were up on General Horse Talk a few weeks ago. Perhaps you could try and search on there and pm the owner to see what tactics they used (think horse was called Orion, but not sure?). Good luck!

[angblue]

Thanks guys, still feel a bit low about it which is silly I know!
wozzer cant find the thread you mentioned

[emmab]

suz was the owner that posted about overcoming water problem.

[kya]

Some days are just not going to work out! As you pointed out, apart from not going over the stream, your Blue did great. I love the determined but highly relaxed 'no way Mum' look on his face! Sorry Ang.