We woke up to a beautiful sunny day and sat outside and had coffee looking at the ocean. As everyone was awake we decided to go for a long walk down the beach before breakfast and walked as far as the river inlet where there was a mass of enormous bats hanging in the trees lining the river. By the time we got home the wind had picked up and it was quite chilly. The kids didn't care though, so after breakfast we hit the beach for the morning. I didn't last t...

We were all woken at the crack of dawn by the huge road trains roaring past us on the highway. At 7 am we started the generator for a coffee knowing it couldn't upset our neighbours as the noise from the road trains was far worse! We all skipped breakfast, packed up the van and hit the road driving straight to the bakery in Gin Gin where we bought some delicious cinnamon scrolls to munch on the road. We took the drive across to Hervey Bay slowly as it was un...

The fruit pickers woke us up at 530 am as they headed off to work. We tried to go back to sleep but it was too tempting to get an early start and so got up and had coffee. We were all packed up and on our way by 730 am. Lyn waved us off, as did the dogs, and the drive to Mackay was the quietest and calmest drive of the day. We found a service station south of Mackay that made great cheap toast for breakfast for the kids and stopped there for half an hour tr...

Everyone seemed to wake up early and by 730 am we were sitting outside enjoying our coffee - well, Nick was. I was still a stunned mullet from being woken up!! All the other campers departed and we had the park to ourselves once again. We spent the morning on schoolwork and the kids did really well. They had forgotten all of their times tables despite our repetitive drilling of them in the car on long trips so Nick found a website for them to use and within...

Both girls woke up at 230 am needing the toilet and then Annie woke up again at 330 am in tears due to a nightmare. She climbed into bed with us and we all slept on until 7. The kids could hear the other two kids playing outside and so went off to join them letting Nick and I come round slowly. They were moving on today and the kids were quite sad to say goodbye but we distracted them with a morning of schoolwork! We had an early lunch and sat in the sun for ...