We left on Easter Sunday to drive all the way across the Eyre Peninsula to Baird Bay where we would meet up with Jane, Bailey, Paul Wetherall and Adam (their 'adopted' son) for our swim with dolphins and sea lions. We stopped along the way at Kimba which is apparently halfway across Australia and home to a massively huge Galah. We arrived at Baird Bay around 3:00 and got ourselves settled into the campground. We met up with Jane, Paul, Bailey and Adam and had a n...

Saturday, April 12: We left Chance's house in Adelaide at 6:00 am and drove just over 2 hours to get to Port Jervis to get the 9:00 Ferry to Penneshaw on Kangaroo Island (KI). We stopped for Macca's on the way and just before Port Jervis, Layla threw up her hotcakes and hashbrown within 20 minutes and was good to go! We got to the ferry at 8:10 and lined up to get on. We went in to buy our ticket only to find out that you had to book months in advance. Funny ...

This weekend was the Clare Valley Half Marathon so we decided to stay close to home and prepare for our week off altogether next week in Kangaroo Island. Layla had a play-date with Olivia for the day on Friday. That evening Kate and Tony dropped Layla off and stayed around for a few drinks and to let the kids play. They played hard at hide and seek and chicken racing. On Saturday we decided to make Lefsa in preparation for our next two weeks worth of camping b...

What a crazy weekend! The forecast was calling for 28 and 31 on Saturday and Sunday respectively, so we decided to load up the car on Thursday night while Layla was at her year 3/4 "Big Night Out" at school so we could head out camping. After a long and tiring day of work for both Darren and Leanne at the High School we decided to hold off on leaving until Saturday morning so we could have a night to get organize and Leanne could get her 10-page paper started. ...

On Friday I took the day off of school (which was an international incident involving 2 teacher's unions) and we headed into Adelaide to pick up Zack Fleming and Emily Leggette who have been travelling around Australia for the past 3 weeks and were in need of a real bed in a real home and some real food...so we took them camping! We headed first to Gorge Wildlife Park (again) to see the wallabies, kangaroos, and of course the koalas. It was a lot of fun and we ...