With the heater on all night it’s toasty warm in the van, maybe a bit too stuffy, so we’ll need to remember to leave a window open next time.
Continue reading “Day 2 – Carrathool (Hay) to Wentworth”Day 2 – Carrathool (Hay) to Wentworth
Day 1 – Home to Carrathool (Hay)
After waking several times, as you do when you know you need to get up extra early, the clock finally says 4:45, not much point trying to get 15mins more sleep. Like last time Liam is up early. We get ready in near record time and are on the road by 5:45. I’ve got to say doing a U turn with a caravan in Clarke St is interesting at the best of time, let alone 5:30.
Continue reading “Day 1 – Home to Carrathool (Hay)”Day 13 – Forster
A relaxed start to the morning. Breakfast and I lookup the tides to see it will be high tide at around 10:30am. There is a netted swim area on the lake, not far from Mum’s. At low tide it can be quite shallow, but is OK at high. I thought he kids might like to jump in from the jetty, the last few time we’ve been here the water has been too low. Liam literally Jumps at the chance, Caitlin is not sure if she’ll go in or not.
Continue reading “Day 13 – Forster”Day 12 – Maclean to Forster
Not as far today, about 360km, so we have a later start and a more relaxed start. While we are nowhere near the highway, the local road is pretty busy and there is more road noise than I expected. I guess normally you’d be down by the river and it would be nice and quiet.
Continue reading “Day 12 – Maclean to Forster”Day 11 – Hervey Bay to Maclean
I wake up at 5:10, I at least rest if not sleep until the alarm goes off at 6. Quick showers and …coffee…. and collect the last of our belongings. Finally we hitch up and we pull away at 6:50, not a bad run at all. Through Hervey bay and a quick stop to empty the dunny. There are three vans pulled up behind the visitors centre, it’s designated as an overnight freecamp, but for god’s sake it right next to the dump station. Gee you’d have to be desperate.
Continue reading “Day 11 – Hervey Bay to Maclean”Day 3 – Deepwater to Hervey Bay
We up by 6:30, although neither of us have had a great night sleep. Given we packed up most things last night, we on the road just on 7. We only get a few Kms up the New England when we’re stopped by roadworks at Bolivia. As we pass, we can see they are building this bridge over the valley to bypass this section of winding road.
Continue reading “Day 3 – Deepwater to Hervey Bay”Day 2 – Deepwater
The kids woke us up at around 7-ish, but with daylight savings, it feels like 8(-ish). The kids go and look for the eggs, and it takes them less than 2 minutes. There aren’t many places to hide them in a caravan. The kids then eat some chocolate and have the traditional hot cross bun. Then Liam started writing some of the first Easter Sunday paragraph, and I have to say, he did a magnificent job.
*No awards for figuring out who wrote that paragraph.
Continue reading “Day 2 – Deepwater”Day 1 – Annandale to Deepwater
Up stupidly early and the kids are still asleep, I go to make a coffee and the next thing I see is both of them. Not only are they awake at 5:30, they’re completely dressed! Last of the stuff from the house packed and we’re ready to leave around 6am. I get a photo as I normally do of the kids hanging out of the car, but this one’s a bit different as it’s pitch black.
Continue reading “Day 1 – Annandale to Deepwater”Trip Preperation
Like most things this year, you can plan all you like, but sometime things are just out of your hands.
We’d figured a few months ago as everything seemed to be getting back on track that we’d try and visit Justine’s Mum’s just outside of Hervey Bay. We haven’t been up there since the start of the OZ trip.
Continue reading “Trip Preperation”Day 8 – Pack and Home
We wake at about 3am to the sound of pretty heavy rain, I’m not bothered as such, just the thought of packing up everything when it’s wet stops me from going straight back to sleep.
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