Sunday, 15 October, 2017

This week has been so relaxing - we went camping!  We had chosen one city to go to which was quite a ways from Hervey Bay, but since a ton of rain was predicted, we decided to stay close to home in case we got flooded out (we didn't!).  We ended up choosing to go to a little town called Bargara which is about 90 minutes north of Hervey Bay.  It was a fabulous week! 😌

There are two campgrounds in Bargara and both received favourable reviews on TripAdvisor, but we chose this one called 'Absolute Oceanfront' as it was smaller and quieter than the other one.  The campground is right on the ocean, as the name suggests, but there was no beach there, just a bunch of very large rocks.  Our campsite was 4 sites back from the water's edge - it was lovely going to sleep to the sound of the surf.

We spent our days reading, doing puzzles, knitting (me), dipping in the pool and playing games.  We were planning on doing some geocaching, but by the time we were ready to go, the rain had started and it didn't give up enough for us to head out.  We even  had to take down the trailer in the rain which was fun (not!).  The trailer canvas held up and we didn't get any rain coming inside the trailer.

Dad and I really enjoyed being out in the fresh air every day and just doing not much of anything.  We love our camping trailer and are looking forward to many more trips with it.

View from our camping trailer

View with the camping trailer in the pic

Dad ready to eat our first meal on this camping trip - hot dogs, salads and baked beans

Me enjoying breakfast in the fresh air

Dad working on a crossword puzzle

Camping in the rain - our flip flops and mat which were outside the trailer ended up floating away - fortunately, with the help of a flashlight, we found them not far away - we just had to laugh 😃