Oh My GOD has it been a long time since I have written on here. Where did the last year go???
Well the good news is, there wasn’t that many Caravan trips that I missed since Wye River last year, but I’ll fill you in quickly on what you have missed.
So…
Not long after the Wye River trip (around early Feb) we had the annual Morton and Leyh holiday away. Last year was Mornington, and we spent the day on the beach building… yes you guessed it…. Sand castles.
Don’t remember much from that trip except that it was a pretty awesome sandcastle and took most of the day to build. I’ll add a few pictures below.
Anyway, after that trip, we had another short trip to Lake Eildon for the Labour Day long weekend with the Waldron’s. Again don’t remember too much from that trip (must do this closer to the actual trips!!) except I had to leap into the lake to save Jess as she was disappearing under the murky water… of course I was fully clothed and had to explain to my boss the following week why my mobile phone no longer worked!! Small price to pay for saving Jess though!
Beyond that we didn’t do a lot of other trips in the van last year, The Prom was cancelled as the park flooded and was not in full working order by Easter (fingers crossed for this year!), and well the rest of the year just seemed to be too busy to get away.
Well so far 2012 is gearing up to fix that 🙂
Of course I had my annual boys trip up at the Murray from New Year’s day, but not much to report on that trip except, a tree branch fell on a tent almost killing a young dad and his two babies right in front of our eyes, I got seriously sick for two days, the temperature got to about 43 degrees (AC in the van worked a treat!!) Edward got bogged and needed his Patrol pulled out by Mark’s Pathfinder, so I got bogged in the same spot and got Ed to pull my pathfinder out with his Patrol, and there was a bush fire about 1.5kms down the track from us on the last night!!
But given that was a boys trip in the van and not a family trip, I won’t talk about that here!!
The first “family” trip for the year was to Inverloch over the Australia day weekend for the annual family trip with Fi’s family. A great weekend over four days with magnificent weather. We spent every day at the beach on Aries Inlet, building sand castles and having a ball. Temperatures were over 30 every day, and the inlet is so safe for the kids.
We headed down to the beach every morning at low tide where you could walk almost 1km across the river to the deep water on the other side. The kids all had a ball looking for sea shells in the sand.
When we arrived at the beach, it was almost 100m to the water, and we setup about 50m away, then had to move back up the beach about 2pm each day as the water rose. I built sand castles of course, but this time I tried my hand at sculpting people… see what you think cause I think I should go back to doing volcanos!!
The park was fantastic and there were so many kids there over the holiday weekend. Was absolutely packed! The kids all had a great time between the playground, jumping pillow and riding bikes. Was a little better on the Sunday when the park emptied out, although given the change of weather on the last night, maybe we should have left as well.
We awoke to pack up day and torrential rain! Of course I had put the walls on the annex, so we had a very wet pack down that day. The kids were all sent to the TV room to stay dry while Mark and I packed our sopping wet canvas. At least by the time we got home it was 32 degrees and everything dried again in about 30 minutes.
That was about a week ago, and well we have just got back from our latest trip, the annual family holiday with the Leyh’s again. This year we decided not to go back to Mornington as the caravan park is pretty average and they keep stuffing up Mum and Dad’s booking, so for a change we went to the Big4 at Badgers Creek in Healesville. Was a good relaxing weekend spent just sitting around the park in the shade by the creek. Yesterday, Zac, Dad and I took a quick trip to the Buxton trout farm as Zac decided he wanted Rainbow trout for dinner. Took 30 mins to get there (through the Black Spur), 30 seconds to catch a fish, and 30 mins back! I cooked it up in the Cobb with some fresh Lime, cracked Pepper and Krazy Salt and Zac proceeded to consume the entire fish in front of everyone!
Lucky for us we had plenty of BBQ stuff and had an absolute feast for dinner with so much left over we even took a doggy bag for Ruby!
A good relaxing (but short 2 night) stay.
Well not sure when the next trip will be yet, maybe the Labour Day weekend, or hopefully the Prom at Easter. Either way I’ll try not to be so slack and write on here about our Caravanning adventures.
Until next time…
Have fun 🙂
