Nick woke up early at 7am and there was a lovely red sky shining through the window. He stepped outside for a walk and it instantly began to rain so instead he started to unpack the top of the car. Once shops had begun to open he went off into town to buy shower parts, refill gas bottles and order new tyres for the car, as ours are bald! I was supposed to do schoolwork but couldn't face it today so instead spent most of the morning producing endless plates of ...

We got woken around 8am this morning, as campers all over the place were packing up and heading home. It took us a while to get out of bed and then we too packed up and were on the road by 10am. Johanna Beach has been a great free camp but I'm definitely feeling the need to move on. The kids have completely forgotten about 'stranger danger' and some of the long termers here have made my alarm bells ring! The plan was to spend the next two nights in Lorne a...

Woke around 8am as the camp seemed quite active this morning. There was a massive queue for the toilet until after 9am and the park ranger appeared at one point and fined a group for having a fire - $722!! We spent the morning doing schoolwork again as we probably wont do any tomorrow with it being a travel day. The kids did well despite all the distractions from fellow campers. We were going to head out and explore in the afternoon but it was difficult to ...

Woke up this morning to lots of noise in the camp and found we had a few more neighbours then when we went to bed! We cranked up the generator and had coffee and before long all the old timers of the camp had come out to suss out the new arrivals!! I think we sit in the 'old timer' camp as we have been made privy to a secret stash of toilet paper for the weekend!! After breakfast, Nick spent the morning doing schoolwork with the kids (we missed too many days...

Slept in yet again and woke to drizzle and mist. We had planned to spend the day doing chores in Colac but by the time we had finished breakfast everything had changed and Nick went off into Apollo Bay while I stayed at the campsite and looked after the caravan. A long weekend starts in Victoria today and we are expecting the campground to fill up. I spent the entire day doing schoolwork with the kids. After every half an hour they would have a break and do...