Oshi and Sasha were just gone! 🐢 I’d stopped to take a photo of a snow-topped Tararua peak, picked up a discarded plastic bottle, turned around, and the dogs were gone. Tl;dr: I got them back after prolonged searching and enlisting help from passersby. 🐢🐢 were unrepentant!

Snow-topped mountain behind sand dunes.Small dog rolling on the sand.