Enjoying the Great Outdoors

They say things always happen in 3's...well I tend to agree. So with the previous night's lack of pasta counting as number 1, my next blunder I discovered as I begin to organise our breakfast of eggs and bacon rolls. There were no eggs!  I've left the eggs further than the car...actually back home in the fridge - number 2. Luckily Emily came to the rescue with spare eggs for us. As for number 3 well that occurred at dinner. Now I must say this one is technically not my fault - we ran out of gas despite the gas bottle only being filled up the previous week!! Dodging filling we suspect and no more business from us. Thankfully the trangia needed for the overnight hike saved us.

Our relaxing day at Bittangabee was mostly relaxing! The proposed trail 7km hike to the Lighthouse was aborted and post breakfast, we ambled back down to the beach once again. Several people - Andy, Tom and Al went for a 'proper' swim ending up across the bay ~ 200m. The bigger children of Max, Mica and Ella accompanied by Emily found themselves up for the challenge and made their way across too. Everyone returned safely, only to have the little girls waiting to go on adventure too! So back across Al and Emily go. This time with Alma, Isobel, Mira, Katy and myself. They were all amazing and felt very chuffed with themselves on their return!

We played games, frisbee, built sandcastles, had swimming lessons(!), races and generally lounged about. As we were packing up, a pod of dolphins swam into the bay. It was picture perfect!


At some point in the early afternoon we returned to the campsite for a late lunch. The kids explored and played while the adults chatted. A big goanna strolled through the campground and a lyrebird was digging nearby. Once refreshed we made our way down to the rock shelf and explored the numerous rock formations and pools. Not much marine life was spotted though.

Back to camp, Andy found this humongous log which provided much entertainment for the rest of the evening. After a bit of glow stick fun and marshmallows, the kids went off to bed rather early. Katy and Mira successfully camped in their own tent together after the previous night's attempt was thwart with a scared, tearful Katy retreating back to our tent! Meanwhile the adults enjoy another evening of wine, cheese and goodies!